August 1939

Articles

• Parents Against Children

  "None but the most romantic can hide from himself the fact that, however sweetly we may interpret it, the human child begins his life in anger."

  Karl A. Menninger

• The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

• The Web and the Rock

  Theodore Spencer

• Wind, Sand and Stars

  Edward Weeks

• Chicagoans as Cicerones

  H. B. Elliston

• Look in Your Glass

  Ruth Gordon

• Isolation: The Dodo

  David L. Cohn

• Charlie Chaplin

  Alistair Cooke

• The Indispensable Opposition

  Walter Lippmann

• Opéra Bouffe

  John Walcott

• The Ballad of Marco Polo

  Stephen Vincent Benét

• A Challenge to Medicine

  Haven Emerson, Joseph T. Smith, and Roger S. Siddall

• Sea Captain's Return

  Helen Forbes

• Gideon

  Joseph O’Kane Foster

• My Uncle Horace

  George H. Freitag

• Now It Is Summer

  Margaret Elizabeth Rhodes

• The Next Peace

  Graham Hutton

• What Is Advertising?

• Margery Kempe of Lynn

  Sigrid Undset

• Under Thirty

  Robb White, Aubrey B. Haines, and Donald J. Webb

• Watch Out for Panama

  R. L. Martin

• Wives Ahoy!

  Beatrice Bill Talbot

• Remorse

  Anne Goodwin Winslow

• Jed Kane

  Louise Mcneill

• Much Ado About Pigs

  Cecil Barger

• An Old Song

  May Sarton

• Rogue Male

  Geoffrey Household

• The Bethlehem Steel Quiz

• Let's Go See

• The Contributors' Column

  Walter Lindsay, Elizabeth Faulkner Percy, Louise L. Thompson, Mary K. Duguid, and Theodore E. Steinway

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