The Book of the Homeless

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

Contents

 * 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