Description: Yes we combine shipping for multiple purchases.Add multiple items to your cart and the combined shipping total will automatically be calculated. 1915 January Current Opinion WWI Magazine - Efforts to Drag Italy Into The War EFFORTS TO DRAG ITALYINTO THE WAROur National Defenses in the Light ofEurope’s WarThe Greatest Hero of the WarWar and the Woman’s Rights MovementSecret of the Control of Height in ManThe Pilgrim Soul of RussiaTHE DUEL OF VAST ARMIESON THE PLAINS OF POLANDCONTENTS FOR JANUARYThe Submarine in Search of its Prey.__.ivA Review ofthe WorldOur National Defences in the Light of the Euro-pean War..................................... 1Uncle Sam and the Mexican Buzz-Saw.........5British Anxiety over German Intrigue in theUnited States.............................. 8Effect of the Sea Battle on the Naval Balance ofPower...................................... 9Persons in theMr. Herrick and his Disinherited PresidentialBoom...................................... 18Sir Edward Grey: The English Statesman whom allReturn of the French Government to Paris... 12Obscurities of the Russian Campaign againstGermany.................................. 14The Effort to Involve Italy in the EuropeanWar....................................... 16ForegroundKing Albert of Belgium: The Greatest Hero ofthe Greatest War in History.................. 20Germany Execrates........................ 22Music and Drama‘Daddy Long-Legs’’: A Play in which the Or-phan Asylum is made a Temple of Love......24Has the Contemporary Theater got too far awayfrom Hackneyed Themes?..................... 29Science andMust the Science of Heredity get rid of Dar-winism ?........................................ 32How the Philosophy of Reality Affects theFrench Science of War........................... 33An Artillerist’s Explanation of the ImprovizedSiege that makes Battle Obsolete................ 35A Practical Professor’s way of Discovering whohas the Dramatic Instinct....................... 30Results of the Modern Effort to Convert Land-scape into Music................................. 31DiscoveryThe Extinct Apes as Guides to the Antiquity ofour Ancestors......................... 37Locating the Secret of the Control of Heightin Man................................ 38Religion andSocial EthicsOn the Trail of the Pilgrim Soul of Russia....39Protestantism Falling Behind Through the Un-productive Marriages............................. 40Is any Nation Indispensable to the Future ofCivilization?.................................... 41LiteratureThe Literary World.......................... 46Russian Hatred of Western Ideals as Revealedin the Letters of Do-toevsky................. 4SAn English Critic Indicts American Fiction asExaggerated and Stereotyped............... 49The Greatest Art Collection Ever Given to theAmerican Public........................... 59How War Madness Reduces the Freedom of theWill..................................... 43Scientific and Literary Belief in Life after Death 44Has War Killed the “Woman’s Rights’’ Move-ment in Europe?............................ 45and ArtGreece’s Literary Revolution—A War BetweenFrench and German Scholarship........... 52Voices of the Living Poets................. 53A Motor Ride in the Zone of Buttle on the Aisnc 55The Bombardment............................ 56The Business XV orldThe Forward Look.............................. 57The Greatest Problemin Business.............. 57Enjoying the Game; or, The Man who does notRetire...................................... 59Your Business FitsYou.................... 60A Merchant’s Letters to His Salesmen Behindthe Counter................................... 60Mixingt Heart with Brains.................... 65Collate your Data............................ 66“Good-Will’’............................... 67Will-Power Developed by Little Things.......68A- REVIEW- OF TH E WORLDOUR NATIONAL DEFENCES IN THE LIGHT OFTHE EUROPEAN WARA S IF the joyful Christmas season did not haveenough drawbacks this year, a very considerableportion of the American press are engaged just nowin assuring us that the war-clouds are hovering, orare about to hover, over this fair land and are likelyto break upon us before we can get our umbrellasready. We are, so the Washington Post discovers, “inimminent danger of becoming involved” in the worldwar. The N. Y. Herald sees the danger, but sees ita little farther off. When the war in Europe ends,then will be the time of our peril. “A false or mis-understood step even at this moment,” it says, “might,when the victors emerge from the conflict, embroil usin war.” The N. Y. American is more vivid in itswarning. “The moment of triumph,” it remarks, “forone or the other of the European belligerents will bea moment of menace for us—as for all other nationswhich may stand in the way of some ambition not fullysated by the victory won. Shall the rapt visionings ofa doctrinaire, blind to the lessons of the past and themenace of the future, leave us in such event nakedto the assaults of our enemies?” The “doctrinaire”referred to is President Wilson and the “rapt vision-ings” are to be found in his message to Congress lastmonth. But The Navy is still more alarming, and to bemore alarming than a Hearst paper in the midst of anagitation is “going some.” The European war, saysThe Navy, is to be regarded not as the last great warbut as the first. Weapons are to grow more and moredeadly, and the horrors seen in Flanders or Poland inthese days “will sink into comparative insignificancewhen future historians compile statistics of comingconflicts among the nations of the earth.” It foresees,indeed, “a series of wars of such tremendous extentthat the wars which have been fought previously willappear insignificant.” From these and many othersuch-like sayings last month shrewd Americans knew.without further information, that the time had arrivedfor another army and navy appropriation bill to bestarted on its way through Congress.The Defects, of Our Army, and Navy.HE agitation this year, begun by CongressmanGardner, of Massachusetts, taken up by SenatorLodge, backed vigorously by the Army League andthe Navy League and by a new organization called theNational Security League, is directed to securing aspecial commission of inquiry to investigate the con-dition of our national defences. The first results havebeen an extended discussion in the press and publichearings—the first in years—by the House naval com-mittee and the committee on military affairs, with aview, probably, to forestalling the necessity of a specialcommission. Out of the testimony of generals and ad-mirals and the reports of the various bureaus, as wellas the annual reports of Secretary Daniels and Secre-tary Garrison, a considerable amount of informationhas been elicited, much of which has served as addi-tional fuel to the fire. It transpires, for instance, fromthe testimony of Rear-Admiral Fletcher, that we hadlast month but one submarine in actual first-class com-mission, twelve undergoing the annual overhauling, andthe rest being in the hands of contractors for altera-tions. It developed also from the testimony of Secre-tary Daniels that we have not one battleship afloat thathas inside armor protection against the attacks of tor-pedoes from submarines, altho we have five battleshipsnow under construction that will have such protection.There are twenty Dreadnoughts in the German navywith double bottoms and five with triple bottoms de-signed for such protection. At present, according toGeneral Scriven, our army has but eleven aeroplanes.It would, in an emergency, take “a year or more” to getloo aeroplanes built. Austria-Hungary has 600; Bel-THE EFFORT TO INVOLVE ITALY IN THEEUROPEAN WARDRINCE VON BULOW had scarcely assumed his* functions as ambassador from Emperor William toKing Victor Immanuel when a concerted effort wasmade by certain radical elements in Rome to make lifeat the Quirinal impossible for the former imperial chan-cellor. These intrigues are traced by the Berlin Tages-zeitung to agents of the London foreign office. Princevon Biilow appears to the London News to have benthis energies less to the persuasion of the Italians tocome out on the side of Germany than to a defeat ofthe plan to involve them with the allies. The Prince iswidely known in Italian society, where his wife hasmany influential relatives. He knows Italy well. Hislove for her is deep-rooted and sincere. Unfortunatelyfor his plans, the new Italian foreign minister, BaronSydney Sonnino, is half English through his mother.The Baron is said to cherish for England the same de-gree of sympathy the Prince cherishes for Italy. Theresult is a diplomatic duel on which for the momentthe most critical issues in world politics depend, or sothe European dailies affect to think. Organs of officialopinion in Berlin have for some weeks praised Italyfor her strict neutrality and advised her to persist init. Premier Salandra has just been fortunate enoughto win a vote of confidence from the deputies in Rome,and, since he professes the strictest neutrality, theN orddeutsche Zeitung predicts that British efforts toinvolve Italy must fail.Immediate Future of Italyas a Neutral.SALANDRA, the Italian premier, remains an instru-ment in the hands of the inscrutable Signor Gio-litti who, all foreign dailies agree, will decide theattitude of his country to the war. “Germany neverhad any illusions,” we find the Berlin Tag saying. ‘‘Sheknew that the whole triple entente would be against herin the event of war, while she could count on the aidemier Salandra,News ofof Austria only. Italy’s fulfillment of her pledges tothe Triplice consisted in her remaining loyally neutral.Nothing more could be expected from her. Iwo newfactors have arisen to delay the entry of Italy into thewar, according to the London Post. One of these isthe arrival of cold weather. The other is the appear-ance of cholera in Austria-Hungary. The Italian mili-tary authorities do not object to heat—witness thefighting in Cyrenaica with a tropical sun blazing. Theyshrink from cold and snow. Especially do they dreadthe prospect of cholera. Meanwhile Premier Salandra,in view of recent indiscretions, has sent a circular tothe prefects calling the attention of editors to the lawrelative to promulgation of military secrets. News ofthe movements of Italian troops is rigidly censored.Italy Under the SalandraCOREIGN policy, the army and'finance must occupythe reconstructed Salandra ministry in Rome to theexclusion of other issues, says the Giornale d’Italia, inTin,6 •°U,1 "'l'\ P,aion Sonnino. Diplomacy affordsRkoro'i1’ r°W “S, m°St COmPlex Problem since thea nerf X addl As for the Italy desiressible time' CT|C’Cnt fightln£ force in the shortest pos-adanted to tbn methods of finance are notantkier J Mes”situation. Thetive element in theL-n ? objecting to a conserva-“this is not the time 'to 1?nistr>'‘ admitS tha‘The Papalo Romann n e domestic questions.Baron Sonnino as fPr°.Ves °! .the appointmenthis firmness. The d •’ ?rei^n mhiister because o*confidence in the cabinl!^ ^0)’riere d'Italia expressespolicy of neutrality will ’ ?.spe?allY in Salandra, whoseCorriere della Sera affi 1 he continued. TheEurope if only becau^T -hat ItalY still counts inwhose weight ma/bp -ls considered as a sworddestinies of nations ° -1? balance where the1S arc weighed...
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