The Book of the Homeless

by Edith Wharton (ed.)

THE BOOK OF THE
HOMELESS

(Le Livre des Sans-Foyer)

EDITED BY
EDITH WHARTON

New York & London

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THE

BOOK OF THE HOMELESS

(LE LIVRE DES SANS-FOYER)

EDITED BY EDITH WHARTON

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Original Articles in Verse and Prose
Illustrations reproduced from Original Paintings & Drawings

THE BOOK IS SOLD
FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE AMERICAN HOSTELS FOR REFUGEES
(WITH THE FOYER FRANCO-BELGE)
AND OF THE CHILDREN OF FLANDERS RESCUE COMMITTEE

NEW YORK

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

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COPYRIGHT, 1916, BY CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS

D. B. UPDIKE, THE MERRYMOUNT PRESS, BOSTON, U.S.A.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CONTRIBUTIONS OF WRITERS AND MUSICIANS

MAURICE BARRÈS	PAGE
Les Frères	59
Translation: The Brothers	61
SARAH BERNHARDT
Une Promesse	64
Translation: A Promise	64
LAURENCE BINYON
The Orphans of Flanders. Poem	3
PAUL BOURGET
Après un An	65
Translation: One Year Later	67
RUPERT BROOKE
The Dance. A Song	4
PAUL CLAUDEL
Le Précieux Sang. Poem	5
Translation: The Precious Blood	6
JEAN COCTEAU
La Mort des Jeunes Gens de la Divine Hellade. Fragment. Poem	9
Translation: How the Young Men died in Hellas. A Fragment	11
JOSEPH CONRAD
Poland Revisited	71
VINCENT D'INDY
Musical Score: La légende de Saint Christophe (Acte I, Sc. III)	55
ELEONORA DUSE
Libertà nella Vita	98
Translation: The Right to Liberty	98
JOHN GALSWORTHY
Harvest	99
EDMUND GOSSE
The Arrogance and Servility of Germany	101
ROBERT GRANT
A Message. Poem	14
THOMAS HARDY
Cry of the Homeless. Poem	16
PAUL HERVIEU
Science et Conscience	105
Translation: Science and Conscience	106
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS
The Little Children. Poem	17
GÉNÉRAL HUMBERT
Les Arabes avaient Raison	109
Translation: An Heroic Stand	111
HENRY JAMES
The Long Wards	115
FRANCIS JAMMES
Epitaphe. Poem	18
Translation: An Epitaph	19
GÉNÉRAL JOFFRE
Lettre du Général Joffre	vii
Translation: Letter from General Joffre	viii
MAURICE MAETERLINCK
Notre Héritage	127
Translation: Our Inheritance	127
EDWARD SANDFORD MARTIN
We Who Sit Afar Off	129
ALICE MEYNELL
In Sleep. Poem	20
PAUL ELMER MORE
A Moment of Tragic Purgation	133
COMTESSE DE NOAILLES
Nos Morts. Poem	21
Translation: Our Dead	21
JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY
Two Songs of a Year: 1914-1915
I. Children's Kisses	23
II. The Sans-Foyer	25
LILLA CABOT PERRY
Rain in Belgium. Poem	26
AGNES REPPLIER
The Russian Bogyman	139
HENRI DE RÉGNIER
L'Exilé. Poem	27
Translation: The Exile	28
THEODORE ROOSEVELT
Introduction	ix
EDMOND ROSTAND
Horreur et Beauté. Poem	30
Translation: Horror and Beauty	30
GEORGE SANTAYANA
The Undergraduate Killed in Battle. Poem	32
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Musical Score: Souvenir d'une marche boche	49
ANDRÉ SUARÈS
Chant des Galloises	143
Translation: Song of the Welsh Women	147
EDITH M. THOMAS
The Children and the Flag. Poem	33
HERBERT TRENCH
The Troubler of Telaro. Poem	34
ÉMILE VERHAEREN
Le Printemps de 1915. Poem	37
Translation: The New Spring	38
MRS. HUMPHRY WARD (Mary A. Ward)
Wordsworth's Valley in War-time	151
BARRETT WENDELL
1915. Poem	40
EDITH WHARTON
Preface	xix
The Tryst. Poem	41
MARGARET L. WOODS
Finisterre. Poem	43
W. B. YEATS
A Reason for Keeping Silent. Poem	45

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The French poems, except M. Rostand's Sonnet
are translated by Mrs. Wharton

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

CONTRIBUTIONS OF ARTISTS

LÉON BAKST	FOLLOWING PAGE
Portrait of Jean Cocteau. From an unpublished crayon sketch	8
Ménade. From a water-colour sketch	126
MAX BEERBOHM
A Gracious Act. (Caricature.) From a water-colour sketch	104
JACQUES-ÉMILE BLANCHE
Portrait of Thomas Hardy. From a photograph of the painting	16
Portrait of George Moore. From a photograph of the painting	138
Portrait of Igor Stravinsky. From a study in oils	46
EDWIN HOWLAND BLASHFIELD
A Woman's Head. From the original drawing	142
LÉON BONNAT
Pegasus. From a pencil and pen-and-ink sketch	70
P. A. J. DAGNAN-BOUVERET
Brittany Woman. From a drawing in coloured crayons	42
WALTER GAY
Interior. From an original water-colour sketch	32
J. L. GÉRÔME
Turkish Soldier. From the original pencil drawing made in 1857	108
CHARLES DANA GIBSON
"The Girl he left behind Him." From a pen-and-ink sketch	26
ÉMILE-RENÉ MÉNARD
Nude Figure. From a sketch in coloured crayon	150
CLAUDE MONET
Landscape. From an early coloured pastel	22
Boats on a Beach. From an early crayon drawing	100
PIERRE-AUGUSTE RÉNOIR
Portrait of his Son, wounded in the War. From a charcoal sketch	64
AUGUSTE RODIN
Two Women. From an original water-colour sketch	98
THÉO VAN RYSSELBERGHE
Portrait of André Gide. From a pencil drawing	4
Portrait of Émile Verhaeren. From a pencil drawing	36
Portrait of Vincent d'Indy. From a photograph of the painting	52
JOHN SINGER SARGENT, R.A.
Portrait of Henry James. From a photograph of the painting	114
Two Heads. From a pencil drawing	132

Of this book, in addition to the regular edition, there have been printed and numbered one hundred and seventy-five copies de luxe, of larger format.

⁠Numbers 1-50 on French hand-made paper, containing four facsimiles of manuscripts and a second set of illustrations in portfolio.

⁠Numbers 51-175 on Van Gelder paper.