The New Review

1914


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CONTENTS BY ISSUE



Vol. 2 No. 1 January, 1914
New Review
A Weekly Review of International Socialism
New Review Publishing Association — New York City

Alexander Fraser, President
Bertha W. Howe, Treasurer
Richard P. Appleton, Secretary (new)
Herman Simpson, Editor

The President's MessageH. S.
Democratic Imperalism H. S.
These Great Marx KillersH. S.
The British Labor MovementTheodore Rothstein
The Paterson Strike And AfterPatrick L. Quinlan
The Italian Elections Richard Perin
Glass Government in Germany and EnglandJ. B. Askew
Story of the Putumayo Atrocities: Conclusion (7 of 7)W. E. Hardenburg
Fetichism (poem)Harry Kemp
The New Intellectuals Robert Rives La Monte
Syndicalism: A ReplyJohn Spargo
La Trinidad: A Cry from Colorado (poem) Ida Crouch-Hazlett
A Feminist ExtravaganzaFelix Grendon
The Test (poem) Louise W. Kneeland
Socialists on the Negro Question (Letters to the Editor) From: George Louis Arner, Theresa H. Russell


Vol. 2 No. 2 February, 1914
New Review
A Weekly Review of International Socialism
New Review Publishing Association — New York City

Alexander Fraser, President
Bertha W. Howe, Treasurer
Richard P. Appleton, Secretary
Herman Simpson, Editor

The Industrial Crisis H. S.
The Middle Class and Progressivism Frank Bohn
The Patron Saint of the ProgressivesRose Strunsky
Legislation by Exhaustion Julian Pierce
Academic SlaveryArthur Wallace Calhoun
Peace in the BalkansMichael Pavlovvitch
The Gift (poem) Louise W. Kneeland
Poems
   • The Scarecrow Woman
   • Monotheism
   • Ah, Sweet the Birds
   • This Paltry I
   • Alter Ego
Harry Kemp
The Tiger or the System? (review of one act play)
(play is "Tiger" by Witter Bynner)
Felix Grendon
Syndicalism As It IsRobert Rives La Monte
Book Reviews:
Review of "Horace Traubel" By Mildred BainLouise W. Kneeland
Review of "Sabotage" By Emile Pougct Louis C. Fraina
A Socialist Digest:
   • Larkin and Governmental Interference in Strikes
   • Brilliant Socialist
   • Victory in Bulgaria
   • The Socialist Defeat in Baden
   • The General Strike in Switzerland
   • General Strike Against the Church
   • Government Ownership Without Profits
William English Walling
A Historical Book: Charles A. Beard's "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States"


Vol. 2 No. 3 March, 1914
New Review
A Weekly Review of International Socialism
New Review Publishing Association — New York City

Alexander Fraser, President
Bertha W. Howe, Treasurer
Richard P. Appleton, Secretary
Herman Simpson, Editor

Canadian Economic ConditionsW. E. HarJenburg
The Intuitive Philosophy of M. BergsonCharles Rappoport
Socialism and the Feminist MovementMary White Ovington
Recent Growth of International Co-operationAlbert Sonnichsen
In Free AmericaLee H. Graham
The Unemployed (poem) Stuart Stanton Taber
The Thresher's Wife (poem)Harry Kemp
The Sage (translated by Maurice Magnus) (fiction) Maxim Gorki
The Custom of the CasteFelix Grendon
Book Reviews:
"Women as World Builders: Studies in Modern Feminism" by Floyd Dell Louis C. Fraina
"Sons and Lovers" by D. H. LawrenceLouise W. Kneeland
Socialists on the Negro Question: Letters to the editor Mary White Ovington
Ida M. Raymond
Grace Potter
A Socialist Digest:
   • Restoring Competition
   • The White Slave Agitation
   • Eugenics
   • The A. F. of L. at Home and Abroad
   • The Wicked I. W. W.
   • Syndicalism in Great Britain
   • Right of Government Employees to Strike
   • Democracy in Education
William English Walling


Vol. 2 No. 4 May, 1914
New Review
A Weekly Review of International Socialism
New Review Publishing Association — New York City

Alexander Fraser, President
Bertha W. Howe, Treasurer
Albert A. Livingston, Secretary (new)
Herman Simpson, Editor

The Unemployed in San FranciscoJ. Edward Morgan
The Limit of Reform Under CapitalismArthur Wallace Calhoun
Canadian vs. American Methods of "Primitive Accumulation" Gustavus Myers
The Present Status of French SyndicalismPaul Louts
The Australian Workers'Union Jarrah
The Principle of AuthorityFrederick Engels
Bergsonism and Practical IdealismCharles B. Mitchell
Ethnology in EducationElsie Clews Parsons
A Thousand Years From Now (book review of "Darkness and Dawn" By George Allan England )Felix Grendon
Gray Skies (poem)Louise W. Kneeland
Little French Primrose (poem)George Allan England
Behnke, Cellist (music review)Wilhelm Holsamer
The House of Applause (poem)Louise W. Kneeland
Book Reviews:
     "History of Canadian Wealth" by Gustavus MyersW.E.W.
     "The Spirit of American Literature" by John Albert Macy"Louis C. Fraina
A Socialist Digest:
   • Solidarity vs. Solidarity
   • La Follette vs. Wilson
   • The UnscramblingWilliam English Walling
   • Gompers' Basic Argument
   • British Socialists vs. the Mexican People
   • Towards Land Nationalization


Vol 2. No. 5
New Review
A Weekly Review of International Socialism
New Review Publishing Association — New York City

MAJOR new announcement regarding how New Review is being edited:

The New Review will henceforward be edited co-operatively. And we believe that the new editorial board represents every shade of Socialist opinion. These are the editors:

Frank Bohn
W. E. B. Du Bois
Max Eastman
Arturo Giovannitti
Isaac A. Hourwich
Arthur Livingston
Herman Simpson
William English Walling
William Bohn
Floyd Dell
Louis C. Fraina
Felix Grendon
Paul Kenneday
Walter Lippmann
Robert H. Lowie
Helen Marot
Albert Sonnichsen

In the "Announcement" at the start of this issue, it is stated: "We shall publish no editorials, and within the limits of our subject matterwe shall declare no editorial policy"

contents:

Announcement (regarding new editorial structure)
The Truth About Lincoln and the NegroRose Strunsky
Roosevelt's "Socialism"William English Walling
I.W.W. Versus A. F of L.Joseph J. Ettor
Socialism and the Feminist MovementE. Belfort Bax
Giovannitti's Poems by Arturo Givanitti
(review of "Arrows in in the Gale")
by Anna Strunsky Walling
Book Reviews:
   "Boycotts and the Labor Struggle" by Harry W. Laidler W.E.W.
   "History of Socialism" by Thomas Kirkup 5th ed.
    (revised and largely re-written by Edward R. Pease)
Louis C. Fraina
   "Socialism and Democracyh in Europe" by Samual P. Orth Louis Frania
   "Starving in America" by Alfred W. McCannG.P.
A Socialist Digest:
   • Whither is the British Labor Party Tending?
   • Industrial Unionism in Germany
   • What is the Negro Question?
   • Philosophy of Labor Legislation
   • American Economists on Syndicalism
   • The Real Intervention in Mexico
   • The Effect of the Southern African Strike on British Socialism
   • The Revolution of the British Aristocracy
   • A General Strike Against Compulsory Arbitrarion
   • Unemployment
   • Is Labor Losing Ground - And Why?
   • Industrial Investigation
   • The Approaching End of the Unscrambling


Vol 2. No. 6 June, 1914
New Review
A Weekly Review of International Socialism
New Review Publishing Association — New York City

[In the Greenwood Reprint, here is where we first encounter a full listing of the editors and board. This may have been given in May, but there may be a page missing from the Greenwood Reprint for May 1914 where this listing was presented.]

Alexander Fraser - President
Max Heidelberg - Treasurer (new)
Louis C. Fraina - Secretary (new)

BOARD OP EDITORS:
Frank Bonn
William E. Bohn
Floyd Dell
W. E. B. Du Bois
Max Eastman
Louis C. Fraina
Arturo Giovanitti
Felix Grendon
Isaac A. Hourwich
Paul Kennaday
Robert Rives La Monte
Arthur Livingston
Robert H. Lowie
Helen Marot
Herman Simpson
Albert Sonnichsen
Wm. English Walling


ADVISORY COUNCIL:

(incomplete)
Arthur Bullard
George Allan England
Reginald Wright Kaufmann
Harry W. Laidler
Austin Lewis
Walter Lippmann
John Macy
Gustavus Myers
Mary White Ovington
William J. Robinson
Charles P. Steinmetz
J. G. Phelps Stokes
Horace Traubel
John Kenneth Turner




BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Alexander Fraser
Jessie Ashley
Louise W. Kneeland
Caro Lloyd
Gertrude U. Light
Arthur Livingston
Paul Wilson
Max Heidelberg
Louis C. Fraina











The Key to the Mexican Problem Charles A. Beard
Why I Am for Zapata John Kenneth Turner
Financial Intervention in Mexico William English Walling
Colorado, 1893-1914 Isaac A. Hourwich
Concerning Anarchy Max Eastman
The Gompers Contempt Case Isaac A. Hourwich
Karl Kautsky on the High Cost of Living Frank Bohn
Walling's "Progressivism and After" Walter Lippmann
Socialism and Feminism Floyd Dell
Ernst Haeckel Robert H. Lowie
A SOCIALIST DIGEST:
   • The Colorado War and Compulsory Arbitration
   • Is Land the Real Issue in Mexico?
   • French Socialist Victory
   • A Revival of the Revolutionary Spirit
   • The Trend Towards Government Ownership
   • Do Socialists Increase Taxes?
   • Confiscation by Taxation in Great Britain
   • Beyond Industrial Unionism
   • The Threatened Civil War in England
   • Shall Socialists and Progressives Combine?
     (from Metropolitan Magazine)
   • How Far Are Socialists Disfranchised?
   • Government Employees in Australia


Vol. 2 No. 7 July 1914
The New Review
A Weekly Review of International Socialism
New Review Publishing Association — New York City [new address: 80 Fifth Avenue, New York City]

Alexander Fraser - President
Max Heidelberg - Treasurer
Louis C. Fraina - Secretary


ADVISORY COUNCIL:
(Lippmann is gone)
Arthur Bullard
George Allan England
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Reginald Wright Kanfmann
Harry W. Laidler
Austin Lewis
John Macy
Gustavus Myers
Mary White Ovington
William J. Robinson
Charles P. Steinmetz
J. G. Phelps Stokes
Horace Traubel
John Kenneth Turner

Class Lines in Colorado Max Eastman
New Phase of the Contempt Cult Fredrick Haller
Daniel De Leon Louis C. Fraina
Why a Socialist Party? William English Walling
The Drama of Dynamite Floyd Dell
Another Study in Black W. E. B. Dubois
A Socialist Digest:
   • The Upshot in Colorado
   • Do Socialists Hold Rockefeller Responsible?
   • War on the Catholic Church
   • Jack London in Mexico
   • An A. F. of L. Victory
   • Debs, Revolutionary Unionist
   • American Socialists and the Land Question
   • Socialism Outlawed in the British Labor Party
   • Is Labor Permanently Split in New Zealand?
   • The March Towards Political Democracy
   • The Ethics of Sabotage
Correpondence:
   • Why "Revolutionary"?Charles Wood
   • The Abolition of PovertyS. S.


Vol 2. No. 8 August 1914
The New Review
A Weekly Review of International Socialism
New Review Publishing Association — New York City, 80 Fifth Avenue, New York City]

A FEMINIST SYMPOSIUM:
Feminism Marie Jenney Howe
   • Feminism and Socialism Louise W. Kneeland.
   • Socialism and Feminism: A Reply to Belfort Bax Maud Thompson
   • Some Anti-Feminist Vagaries Frances G. Richards
Direct Primaries Isaac A. Hourwich
Movements of Migratory
Unskilled Labor in California Austin Lewis
The Great American Scapegoat Max Eastman
A "Socialist" Advocate of Plutocracy William English Watting
A SOCIALIST DIGEST
   • Socialism vs. the State
   • The New Tory Party
   • "The Constitution of Peace"
   • Wilson, Roosevelt, and the Trusts
   • Roosevelt, Reactionary
   • Congress of German Labor Unions
   • Revolutionary Berlin
   • Radicals and Socialists in France
   • An Irish Labor Party
   • The March of Collectivism


Vol. 2 No. 9 September, 1914
The New Review
A Weekly Review of International Socialism
New Review Publishing Association — New York City, 80 Fifth Avenue, New York City]

The European Explosion Frank Bohn
British and American Socialists on the War William English Walling
Anti-War Manifestoes
The Approaching Elections Charles Edward Russell
Carnegie, Man of Peace Eugene V. Debs.
The Police and the Unemployed Mary Heaton Vorse
The Revolt in Butte M. Rhea
Recent Expressions on Racial Inferiority Robert H. Lowie
A SOCIALIST DIGEST:
   • Belgian Socialists for War
   • The Russian General Strike
   • Servian Socialist Congress
   • I. W. W. vs. A. F. of L. at Butte.
   • The Falling Birth-Rate
   • The Right to Motherhood
   • Suggestions for Educational Reform
   • The Share of Labor


Vol. 2 No. 10 October, 1914
The New Review
A Weekly Review of International Socialism
New Review Publishing Association — New York City, 80 Fifth Avenue, New York City]

Board of editors / Advisory Council / Directors is unchanged from July 1914 president, treasurer, and secretary are unchanged from June 1914

Socialism and the War Isaac A. Hourwich
German Socialists and the War William English Walling
War-Time Reflections Floyd Dell
The Attitude of Italy Arthur Livingston
French Socialists and the War
Italian Socialists and the War
British Anti-War Socialists
The Muddle in England
American Socialists and the War


Vol. 2 No. 11 November, 1914 The New Review
A Weekly Review of International Socialism
New Review Publishing Association — New York City, 80 Fifth Avenue, New York City]

Board of editors / Advisory Council / Directors is unchanged from July 1914 president, treasurer, and secretary are unchanged from June 1914

The Downfall of the International Anton Pannekoek (Bremen)
Freedom of Will and War Professor Jacques Loeb
The War: Personal Impressions Robert Rives La Monte
The War and Socialism William J. Robinson, M. D.
A Pro-German View Robert H. Lowie
French Socialist Manifesto
French and Belgian Socialists to Germans
Two Book Reviews Max Eastman.
CORRESPONDENCE: Socialism and Feminism Belfort Bax and Floyd Dell
Why a Socialist Party? Walter Lippmann and William English Walling
A SOCIALIST DIGEST:
Imperialism and Social Democracy
   • The German Socialists
   • Position of the Italian Socialists
   • Swiss Against German Socialists
   • Maneuvers of a Peace Advocate
   • Futile Peace Talk


Vol. 2 No. 12 December 1914
The New Review
A Weekly Review of International Socialism
New Review Publishing Association — New York City, 87 Greenwich Avenue (new address), New York City]

BOARD OF EDITORS:
Frank Bohn
William E. Bohn
Floyd Dell
W. E. B. Du Bois
Max Eastman
Louis C. Fraina
Felix Grendon
Isaac A. Hourwich
Paul Kennaday
Robert Rives La Monte
Arthur Livingston
Robert H. Lowie
Helen Marot
Herman Simpson
Wm. English Walling




ADVISORY COUNCIL:
Arthur Bullard
George Allan England
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Arturo Giovanitti
Reginald Wright Kaufmanm
Harry W. Laidler
Austin Lewis
John Macy
Gustavus Myers
Mary White Ovington
William J. Robinson
Charles P. Steinmetz
J. G. Phelps Stokes
Horace Traubel
John Kenneth Turner
Albert Sonnichsen



BOARD OF DIRECTORS:
Alexander Fraser
Jessie Ashley
Louise W. Kneeland
Gertrude U. Light
Arthur Livingston
Max Heidelberg
Wm. English Walling
Louis C. Fraina













president, treasurer, and secretary are unchanged from June 1914

Did Capitalism Want the War? John Moody
Federal Interference in Colorado Helen Marot
The War and Dogma Mary White Ovington
The Elections Frank Bohn
The New Map of Europe William English Walling
Russia the Real Menace Charles P. Steinmetz
Carranza's Constructive Policy in Mexico Carlo de Fornaro
Zapata's Manifesto
The Yes and No of War and Peace Horace Travbe
Parliamentary Socialism Benjamin Glassberg.
A Book of Poems Reviewed by Anna Strunsky Walling.
A SOCIALIST DIGEST:
   • Shall the International Be Reorganized?
   • German Socialists Who Are Against the War
   • Kautsky on the Socialist Peace Policy
   • Militarism and Culture
   • A New Democratic Russia?
   • Russian Revolutionary Opinion
   • Armaments and Capitalism
   • For Italian Neutrality
   • War and the "Backward" Races
   • A British Socialist to American Socialists
   • Why the British Are at War
   • Socialist Opinion in Neutral Countries
   • Views of George D. Herron
   • Franz Mehring
   • The Real Cause of the War
CORRESPONDENCE: England and the War Arthur D. Lewis