October 1914

Articles

• The Reasons Behind the War

  “To explain a war begun in aggression, couched in the terms of arrogance, based upon the consciousness of vastly superior strength, to those who have not themselves experienced such emotions and ambitions, above all, to lend to it the color of inevitability which is so clear to Austrian and Serb, involves the explanation of many factors not at first obviously related to the issue itself.”

  Roland G. Usher

• The Kaiser and His People

  “After centuries of national weakness and obscurity, the German could at last feel again that he was part of a great and progressive empire.”

  Kuno Francke

• Do Our Representatives Represent?

  Francis E. Leupp

• Our Lady Poverty

  Agnes Repplier

• The Revelation of the Middle Years

  Cornelia A. P. Comer

• How the Army Was Kidnapped

  Charles Johnston

• Proserpina and the Sea-Nymphs

  Grace Hazard Conkling

• The Friendless Majority

  O. W. Firkins

• Grandfather Crane Invokes the Aid of Sorcery

  Virginia Baker

• Laissez-Faire in Religion

  Washington Gladden

• Our Cultural Humility

  Randolph S. Bourne

• Union Portraits: Iv. George B. McClellan

  Gamaliel Bradford

• Recent Reflections of a Novel-Reader

• Life's Non-Sequiturs

  Lucy Elliot Keeler

• England and America

  Florence T. Holt

• Meditations on Votes for Women

  Samuel McChord Crothers

• School

  Simeon Strunsky

• Italy's Position

  George B. Mcclellan

• Hindsight

• Le Nouveau Pauvre

• The Old House on the Bend

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