Articles from The North American Review
Israel Zangwill (1864 – 1926) was a member of the Jewish literary society in Britain; he was an prominent lecturer, journalist, novelist and playwright. Today, however, he is mostly remembered for his efforts on behalf of the Zionist movement to establish a Jewish homeland. The following is a luke-warm book review from 1916 covering his collection of essays about World War I, The War for the World
In the later years of the First World War, the American journalist Alexander Woollcott (1887 – 1943) served as a writer for the Doughboy newspaper The Stars & Stripes. In this roll he was able to travel far afield all over the American sectors of the front where he saw a great deal of the war: flattened villages, ravaged farmland, factories reduced to ruble. In the attached article from 1920, Woollcott reported that the war-torn provinces of France looked much the same, even two years after the Armistice. He was surprised at the glacial speed with which France was making the urgent repairs, and in this article he presented a sort-of Doughboy’s-eye-view of post-war France.
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Seeing that much of the momentum to prohibit the national sale, distribution and consumption of wine and spirits originated with a hardy chunk of the observant Christian community, the Reverend John Cole McKim decided to weigh in on the topic. McKim tended to believe that:
Christ, being divine and consequently infallible, could not have erred. Since it is well known that Christ used wine Himself and gave it to others…
He further opined:
But to vote what one regards as a natural right shall be declared forever illegal, is cowardly, un-American, and un-Christian.
This is a book review written during the American Civil War, of a British work titled, Does the Bible Sanction American Slavery by a well known anti-imperialist of the time named Goldwin Smith (1823-1910).
The Southern people tell us, that, under their training, the African has become a Christian. When they receive their runaway negroes, who are sent back to them in obedience to the law, as fellow-Christians, not as servants, but as brothers beloved, the mission of St. Paul and his Master to both will be accomplished.
Seeing that much of the momentum to prohibit the national sale, distribution and consumption of wine and spirits originated with a hardy chunk of the observant Christian community, the Reverend John Cole McKim decided to weigh in on the topic. McKim tended to believe that:
Christ, being divine and consequently infallible, could not have erred. Since it is well known that Christ used wine Himself and gave it to others…
He further opined:
But to vote what one regards as a natural right shall be declared forever illegal, is cowardly, un-American, and un-Christian.
Out of the Mouths of Babes: Girl Evangelists in the Flapper Era
This is a book review written during the American Civil War of a British work titled, Does the Bible Sanction American Slavery by a well known anti-imperialist of the time named Goldwin Smith (1823-1910).
Is African slavery, as it exists in our Southern states, an evil or a good thing? Is it, or is it not, consistent with a high sense of duty to man and to God, and with the requirements of that state of Christian civilization which the foremost nations of the world have reached?
The second part of the article is available upon request.
A 1910 book review of Oswald Garrison Villard’s biography of John Brown (1800 – 1859). Believed to be one of the more honest biographies on Brown, Villard’s effort is said to have five chapters dealing only with Brown’s activities in Bloody Kansas, including the slaughter at Pottawatomie.
During the closing months of the American presence in France, one element can be found in the majority of the letters written to loved ones at home:
The French aren’t treating us as nice.
In the war’s aftermath, writer Alexander Woollcott (1887 – 1943) attempted to explain the situation to his readers; what follows were his observations.
As an architect of U.S. Navy battleships and a popular New York politician
Lewis Nixon (1861 – 1940), maintained throughout this article that the full array of 1912 technology was ignored in the planning of Titanic‘s first (and only) voyage:
We have in our battle-ships devices to show when water enters compartments, and by simple and economical devices it would be possible to have the depth to which water has risen indicated on the bridge, and on merchantmen as well as on our men-of-war searchlights should be carried.
Twenty five years after the long march that has come to be known as the ‘Trail of Tears’, an account of that sad injustice was written by one of the first archeologists of the American south-west, O.K. Davis.
The troops and Indians marched side by side for two days for Fort Bowie. Then, Geronimo, Natchez, and about twenty men…escaped…
The second half of the article is available upon request.
