May 1917

In This Issue
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Articles
National Independence and Internationalism
“There can be no good international system until the boundaries of states coincide as nearly as possible with the boundaries of nations.”
The Contributors' Column--May Atlantic
Four Days
The Lilies
Juventus Christi
A Little Look at the People
An Engineer at Salonika
A Wilderness Laboratory
Yellow Warblers
Twenty-Five Years 'In Residence'
The American Plan for Enforcing Peace
Saint Dympna's Miracle
The War as Critic: Some Notes on Recent Fiction
Japan and the United States
Nicaragua and the United States
From the Land of the Living Death
At the Enemy's Mercy. Ii
The Machine-Gun Destroyers
The Gentle Theme-Reader
The Passing of the Spare-Room
A Belgian Interlude
