There are an abundance of essays and articles that focus on the war within the many issues of "Scribner's Magazine". One of the essays that stood out to me was "War and the Artist" by Rufus Fairchild Zogbaum, which appeared in Vol 57, No.1 in January 1915. The author tried to connect war with art. He explained that the essence of war gives inspiration to the artist. He says that from the beginning of time there have been countless depictions of war from many different artist. We have evidence of it from ancient egyptian times. He feels that the emotions that come along with war, such as: "Patriotism and treason, courage and cowardice, self-sacrifice and ambition, love and hatred", have always been apart of war. These emotions are what inspire the best artist to do their work. I think this essay was placed in the magazine as a sort of inspiration to artists of the time. The author praises English and American Modern artist for "dealing with actual condtions instead of the fanciful and pretentious" in their portrayal of scences of war. I felt that he was trying to get more artist to be involved and to create artwork about the war. Although he doesn't really address his politic opinion about the war, I still got the sense that he was for any kind of war because of what it brought to the aesthetic world.
After looking through some of the other issues of the magazine, I saw that there was one essay that appeared twice in two different issues. The essay "A Bomb Thrower in the Trenches" by Lieutenant Z of the British Army, appeared in Vol. 60 No.1 from July 1916, as well as Vol. 60 No.2 from August of the same year. The essay is a series of letters written "from the trenches by an Englishman who enlisted as a trooper in one of the new calvary regiments at the outbreak of the war". The letters vividly describe different scenes from the war, witnessing of deaths all around him, and the exhaustion that comes along with war. I believe it had to be an essay of great importance for it to show up twice back to back. The essay seems very nationalist in the sense that he never gave up. He was always trying to do better and to help out in anyway that he could. This was probably the message that they were trying to send by publishing this essay. They wanted to show people that even though it was a difficult war, it was important that everyone contributed wholeheartedly.
