The Book of the Homeless

The Book of the Homeless was a 1916 collection of essays, art, poetry, and musical scores whose profits were used to fund civilians displaced by World War I. It was edited by Edith Wharton.

Contents

Introductory matters

• A letter from Joseph Joffre
• An introduction from Theodore Roosevelt
• A preface by Edith Wharton

Other works

• "The Brothers" by Maurice Barrès
• "A Promise" by Sarah Bernhardt
• "The Orphans of Flanders" by Laurence Binyon
• "One Year Later" by Paul Bourget
• "The Dance" by Rupert Brooke
• "The Precious Blood" by Paul Claudel
• "by How the Young Men died in Hellas" Jean Cocteau
• "Poland Revisited" by Joseph Conrad
• "La légende de Saint Christophe" by Vincent d'Indy
• "The Right to Liberty" by Eleonora Duse
• "Harvest" by John Galsworthy
• "The Arrogance and Servility of Germany" by Edmund Gosse
• "A Message" by Robert Grant
• "Cry of the Homeless" by Thomas Hardy
• "Science and Conscience" by Paul Hervieu
• "The Little Children" by William Dean Howells
• "An Heroic Stand" by Georges Louis Humbert
• "The Long Wards" by Henry James
• "An Epitaph" by Francis Jammes
• "Our Inheritance" by Maurice Maeterlinck
• "We Who Sit Afar Off" by Edward Sandford Martin
• "In Sleep" by Alice Meynell
• "A Moment of Tragic Purgation" by Paul Elmer More
• "Our Dead" by Anna de Noailles
• "Two Songs of a Year: 1914-1915" by Josephine Preston Peabody
• "Rain in Belgium" by Lilla Cabot Perry
• "The Russian Bogyman" by Agnes Repplier
• "The Exile" by Henri de Régnier
• "Horror and Beauty" by Edmond Rostand
• "The Undergraduate Killed in Battle" by George Santayana
• "Souvenir d'une marche boche" by Igor Stravinsky
• "Song of the Welsh Women" by André Suarès
• "The Children and the Flag" by Edith M. Thomas
• "The Troubler of Telaro" by Herbert Trench
• "The New Spring" by Émile Verhaeren
• "Wordsworth's Valley in War-time" by Mary Augusta Ward
• "1915" by Barrett Wendell
• "The Tryst" by Edith Wharton
• "Finisterre" by Margaret L. Woods
• "A Reason for Keeping Silent" by W. B. Yeats