June 1917

Articles

• Ludendorff

  "In brief, one hears of Ludendorff, Ludendorff, whenever German officers utter more than twenty words about the war; his portrait hangs in every mess room; he is the god of every young lieutenant; his favorable notice is worth more to a division or corps commander than the ordre pour le mérite; he is, as it were, the esoteric Ulysses of the war"

  H. L. Mencken

• A Father to His Graduate Girl

  “I look upon your bachelor of arts degree as a life-belt strapped around you as you stand on the deck of a ship that navigates a zone of danger.”

  Edward S. Martin

• The Wives of German-Americans

  “They are war sufferers of whom, it seems, no one has thought. Yet much depends upon how they meet he test which has come to them.”

  M.L.S.

• The Battle of Verdun

  “Neither in France nor in Germany, up to the present moment, has the whole story of the battle been told, describing its vicissitudes, and following step by step the development of the stirring drama.”

  Raoul Blanchard

• The Contributors' Column--June Atlantic

  Albert Lehenbauer and W. J. Lampton

• The United States and Pan-Germanism

  André Chéradame

• Rights and Wrongs of Pacifism

  Henry Jones Ford

• Why Are You Not a Pacifist?

  Charles E. Park

• Good Friday, 1917

  Margaret Prescott Montague

• Mr. Squem

  Arthur Russell Taylor

• Songs of Africa

  Jean Kenyon Mackenzie

• Birthdays and Other Egotisms

  Laura Spencer Portor

• The True Story of Bluebeard

  Lisa Ysaye Tableau

• The Man of Habit

  Margaret Adelaide Wilson

• Ernest, or Parent for a Day

  Randolph S. Bourne

• The Assault on Humanism

  Paul Shorey

• On Schoolgirls

  Henry Dwight Sedgwick

• The Passion Players in War-Time

  Madeleine Z. Doty

• Food-Preparedness for the United States

  Charles O’Brien

• The Graveyard by the Morava. I

  Milutin Krunich

• The Sleepy Road

• A Woman of Almost Thirty

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