December 1915

Articles

• Notes on the Intelligence of Woman

  W. L. George

• What Is Worth Fighting For?

  “Civilization is not saved by the mere purging of one’s heart, but by the work of one’s hands. The forces of destruction must be met, each according to its kind, by the forces of deliverance.”

  Ralph Barton Perry

• Fiddlers Errant

  Robert Haven Schauffler

• Drink Reform in Europe

  John Koren

• Poor America

  Henry Sydnor Harrison

• The House of the Giraffe

  H. G. Dwight

• Two Sonnets

  John Masefield

• My Chinese Fan

  Harry Huntington Powers

• Black Sheep: Iii. The Mail From the Beach

  Jean Kenyon Mackenzie

• The Boulevard of Rogues

  Meredith Nicholson

• Poems on Immortality

  Sarah N. Cleghorn

• This Younger Generation

  Francis Greenwood Peabody

• Accents Wild

  Charles Fitzhugh Talman

• America's Duty

  Baron D’Estournelles De Constant

• The Fight for the Garden of Eden

  Lewis R. Freeman

• Some False Consolations of War

  William Austin Smith

• A Scandinavian View of the War

  George Brandes

• On Shower-Baths

• Littlekin and Keats

• The Enchanted Penny

• The Joys of Futility

• Unhappy Endings

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