December 1922

Articles

• Humor With a Gender

  “Fortunately, during the last fifty years it has gradually ceased to be incumbent upon a woman to suppress either her thoughts or her jests. So both have flourished and grown apace!”

  Elizabeth Stanley Trotter

• The Atlantic's Bookshelf

• The Life and Letters of Waiter H. Page

  M. A. DeWolfe Howe

• Printing Types, Their History, Forms, and Use: A Study in Survivals

  Frederic G. Melcher

• Memories of a Hostess, a Chronicle of Eminent Friendships, Drawn Chiefly From the Diaries of Mrs. James T. Fields

  Willa Cather

• The Three Lovers

  Helen Thomas Follett

• The Bright Shawl

  R. M. Gay

• A Critical Fable - The Poets of the Day; An Account of the Times

  Gamaliel Bradford

• The Voyages of Doctor Dolittle

  Florence Converse

• The America That Used to Be: From the Diary of John Davis Long

• Continuity for Women

  Ethel Puffer Howes

• A Day in a Jungle Laboratory

  Ruth Rose

• Unfamiliar China

  Seal Thompson

• The Vocation of Grief

  Sidney Lovett

• Bereavement

  Jeannette Tomkins

• The Quare Women: VI. Moonshine

  Lucy Furman

• The Psychology of Plants

  Clifford H. Farr

• Poems

  Jean Kenyon Mackenzie

• A Lyric and a Laundry

  Edith Kennedy

• The American Jail: Pages From the Diary of a Prison Inspector

  Joseph F. Fishman

• The Professor and the Palimpsest

  Carol Wight

• The Gullible Gulls

  William L. and Irene Finley

• Georges Clemenceau

  Sisley Huddleston

• The American Mar-Loans and Justice

  Oscar T. Crosby

• Communists and Ploughshares. Ii: The Soviet Compromise

  Louis Levine

• After Washington: The Future of the Pacific Problem

  J. O. P. Bland

• The Personality of a House

• Umbrella Whims

• Oh, How Delicate They Are!

• The Quest of the Blue Dandelion

• The Contributors' Column

  G. W. J., S. S. P. Patteson, Ruth Putnam, Howard N. Eavenson, Frank La Bau Hiller, R. W. Walker, and H. E. Warner

• Atlantic Shop-Talk

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