April 1917

Articles

• Dilemma

  A poem

  Florence Converse

• Waiting

  “In a war involving the nations of five continents, the United States alone fights without expectation, without desire for reward other than the common security of the seven seas.”

  Ellery Sedgwick

• The United States and the League of Peace

  “The typical American mind is not content to disapprove of war; it barely understands it.”

  H.N. Brailsford

• The Contributors' Column--April Atlantic

• A Six-Hour Shift: The Log of a Transport Engineer

  William Mcfee

• Education as Mental Discipline

  Abraham Flexner

• The Schoolma'am of Squaw Peak. Ii

  Laura Tilden Kent

• Some Orchestral Conditions

  Horatio Parker

• Democracy and Diplomacy

  Arthur Bullard

• The Lost Cause

  James Morris Morgan

• Chanson of the Bells of Oseney (Thirteenth Century)

  Cale Young Rice

• The Fifty-Cent Kind

  Katharine Baker

• With Army Ants 'Somewhere' in the Jungle

  William Beebe

• A House in Athens

  Anne C. E. Allinson

• At the Enemy's Mercy

  F. S.

• A Cinema of the c.r.b

  Charlotte Kellogg

• The Singing Soldier

  Lewis R. Freeman

• A Criticism of the Allied Strategy

  H. Sidebotham

• To Bore or Not to Bore

• Stop Being a Bore!

• The Higher Education Again

• Concerning Unheard Melodies

• The Genius of the Race

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