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The New Review

1914

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Special Note of thanks to the following individuals and institutions that made copies of The New Review available and help scan and process them for this archive: Dr. Marty Goodman and Robin Palmer of the The Riazanov Project and David Walters from the Marxists Internet Archive.

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Read the Introduction to The New Review

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CONTENTS BY ISSUE

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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 Message	H. S.
Democratic Imperalism	H. S.
These Great Marx Killers	H. S.
The British Labor Movement	Theodore Rothstein
The Paterson Strike And After	Patrick L. Quinlan
The Italian Elections	Richard Perin
Glass Government in Germany and England	J. 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 Reply	John Spargo
La Trinidad: A Cry from Colorado (poem)	Ida Crouch-Hazlett
A Feminist Extravaganza	Felix Grendon
The Test (poem)	Louise W. Kneeland
Socialists on the Negro Question (Letters to the Editor)	From: George Louis Arner, Theresa H. Russell

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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 Progressives	Rose Strunsky
Legislation by Exhaustion	Julian Pierce
Academic Slavery	Arthur Wallace Calhoun
Peace in the Balkans	Michael 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 Is	Robert Rives La Monte
Book Reviews:
Review of "Horace Traubel" By Mildred Bain	Louise 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"

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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 Conditions	W. E. HarJenburg
The Intuitive Philosophy of M. Bergson	Charles Rappoport
Socialism and the Feminist Movement	Mary White Ovington
Recent Growth of International Co-operation	Albert Sonnichsen
In Free America	Lee 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 Caste	Felix Grendon
Book Reviews:
"Women as World Builders: Studies in Modern Feminism" by Floyd Dell	Louis C. Fraina
"Sons and Lovers" by D. H. Lawrence	Louise 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

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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 Francisco	J. Edward Morgan
The Limit of Reform Under Capitalism	Arthur Wallace Calhoun
Canadian vs. American Methods of "Primitive Accumulation"	Gustavus Myers
The Present Status of French Syndicalism	Paul Louts
The Australian Workers'	Union Jarrah
The Principle of Authority	Frederick Engels
Bergsonism and Practical Idealism	Charles B. Mitchell
Ethnology in Education	Elsie 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 Myers	W.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 Unscrambling	William English Walling
• Gompers' Basic Argument
• British Socialists vs. the Mexican People
• Towards Land Nationalization

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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 Negro	Rose Strunsky
Roosevelt's "Socialism"	William English Walling
I.W.W. Versus A. F of L.	Joseph J. Ettor
Socialism and the Feminist Movement	E. 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. McCann	G.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

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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

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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 Poverty	S. S.

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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