May 1939
In This Issue
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Articles
The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books
The Patriot
Each to the Other
Autobiography With Letters
Tree of Liberty
Defense of Democracy
The Atlantic Bookshelf: Conclusion
A wrap up of book reviews from Edward Weeks
Music Comes to America
The Contributors' Column
How to Tell a Communist: And How to Beat Him
Washington the Blest
Pope Pius Xi
Our Institution Is Brick
Your General Does Not Sleep
In Memoriam: Rose Field
Hour Before Light
The Doctor Consults the Physicist
Keep the Change
Sonnets
How About Hugo Black?
What the Doctor Ordered
Light From the East
The Ailing Golfer
Dakota Made
Under Thirty
If I Had Gone to Prison
'It's a Long Worm..
The State of the Language: 'For the Ear Trieth Words, as the Mouth Tasteth Meat'
What Luck! The Autobiography of A. A. Milne











