February 1920

Articles

• New Light on Lincoln's Boyhood

  "Abe Lincoln's few schooldays were spent at a 'blab school': that is, one in which the children 'read out,' Chinese fashion, at the tops of their voices."

  Arthur E. Morgan

• Does Americanization Americanize?

  "Many politicians and some students have lacked the courage to say what one, like myself, of foreign descent should frankly assert and defend — that this is, and must remain, an essentially and fundamentally American country."

  Gino Speranza

• Ireland and the Outside World

  “To a greater extent or less the wide dispersal of Irishmen within the imperial boundaries makes the Irish question both an imperial and a local problem.”

  Alfred L. P. Dennis

• On the Fence

  “We hope, of course, that American women—and American men—are going to grow better as time goes on; but it will probably be some time before we are perfect, and meanwhile, we will all vote, if any of us do.”

  Frances Parkinson Keyes

• The Last Four Months

  W. B. M.

• 'Marse Henry,' an Autobiography

  M. H.

• The Third Window

  Anne Douglas Sedgwick

• The Lure of Kartabo

  William Beebe

• Geography

  Edward Yeomans

• Where We Stand

  John Galsworthy

• Fiddlers Militant

  Robert Haven Schauffler

• Trysts

  Fannie Stearns Gifford

• Sketches in Peasant Russia: Non-Committal

  Edwin Bonta

• Intellectual America

• Corpus Delicti

  H. T. Avery

• The Magic Table

  Lisa Ysaye Tarleau

• A Captain in the Navy

  Ralph R. Perry

• Homesick by the Sea

  Grace Fallow Norton

• The Labor Policy of the American Trusts

  Carleton H. Parker

• The Austrian Problem

  F. W. Foerster

• The Secret Treaties of the Triple Alliance

  Alfred Franzis Pribram

• Telephone Terror

• Here Are Soporifics

• Landscape Housekeeping

• Summer Revisited

• The Contributors' Column

  Aristos, Wm. J. Dean, and J. K.

• The Atlantic's Bookshelf

• History of the United States From Hayes to McKinley: 1876-1896

  B. W.

• The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma

  P. R. F.

• The Strong Hours

  W. F.

• A Private in the Guards

  H. B. B.

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