"You may well ask why I write. And yet my reasons are quite many."
#OTD in 1914.
The first issue (of two) appears of the Vorticist literary magazine BLAST edited by Wyndham Lewis. It includes Ford Madox Hueffer's "The Saddest Story", a preliminary version of The Good Soldier.
After the onset of World War I the publishers asked Ford for a new title. Ford suggested (sarcastically) The Good Soldier, and the name stuck.
The Good Soldier at PG:
https://gutenberg.org/ebooks/2775