April 1940

Articles

• New Orleans

  David L. Cohn

• But—I'm a Conservative!

  "Our job is to prove right here in America that democracy means, not destructive wrangling, but effective cooperation in solving our spiritual and economic problems. Can this be too much to hope from American youth?"

  Peter Viereck

• Since Yesterday

• Testament of Friendship

• Caroline of England

• Coleridge the Talker

• The Scrapbook of Katherine Mansfield

• Ghosts of London

• Come Spring

• Europe to Let

• Decade

• An Old Captivity

• Windless Cabins

• Archangel House

• Going Native

• Dildo Cay

• Mysteries

• Trouble in July

• High Sierra

• Japan Among the Great Powers

• 221b: Studies in Sherlock Holmes

• Bethel Merriday

• The Story of the Political Philosophers

• The Wandering Years

• Elbert Hubbard

• Aretino: Scourge of Princes

• Program for Peace

  Paul Reynaud

• India’s Demand and England’s Answer

  Jawaharlal Nehru

• Visitation

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

• Elegy Under the Stars

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

• Alms

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

• New England Dilemma

  Howard Mumford Jones

• A Southerner Discovers New England

  Jonathan Daniels

• Dickens and the Marshalsea Prison

  Edmund Wilson

• Spring Journey

  Josephine W. Johnson

• The Catholic Schools in America

  George Johnson

• The Black Shade

  H. M. Tomlinson

• Our Railroads: Can They Haul the Load?

  Robert S. Binkerd

• All Around the Town

  Stephen Vincent Benét

• Spring Beauty, in Beech Woods

  Fannie Stearns Gifford

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