September 1913

Articles

• Downsizing Cities

  “Parents sell their wholesome country homes because of their children, and go where there are grand churches, superior schools, and attractive libraries, to find themselves in close proximity to drinking saloons, dance-halls, gambling dens, and indescribable allurements to vice. Is that better for their boys and girls?”

  G. S. Dickerman

• The Minimum Wage

  John Bates Clark

• Our Loss of Nerve

  Agnes Repplier

• The Magic Formula

  L. P. Jacks

• The Tribulations of an Amateur Book-Buyer

  John L. Hervey

• Lament of Yasmini

  Grace Fallow Norton

• Living India

  H. Fielding-Hall

• A Plea for Materialism

  Ellwood Hendrick

• The Drift to the Cities

  G. S. Dickerman

• A Hopeful View of the Urban Problem

  Mark Jefferson

• The Youngest Daughter of Zelophehad

  Margaret Lynn

• Financing the Rural Church

  Joseph Woodbury Strout

• The Soul of the Little Room

  Margaret Prescott Montague

• Some Novelists and the Business Man: I. In England

  William Arthur Gill

• Paris

  Samuel P. Orth

• Van Cleve and His Friends

  Mary S. Watts

• Some Letters of William Vaughn Moody: Ii

• Business Is Business

  Henry Seidel Canby

• Futurist Manners

• The Human Saturation-Point

• Ravelings

• A Problem in Favoritism

• Lines to an Editor

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