September 1917

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Articles

• The Axe-Helve

  A poem

  Robert Frost

• War Notes From the Big Draft

  “I know that this is not a war merely of newspaper headlines and shouting cities: it is the war of the whole of America. The touchstone of home has told me so.”

  Margaret Prescott Montague

• It Is Well With the Child

  A poem

  Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer

• Professor's Progress: A Novel of Contemporaneous Adventure

• Socialism and Internationalism

  John Spargo

• Narrative of Captain Silas Jones: From the Log of the Awashonks

• Haunted Lives

  Laura Spencer Portor

• The Contributors' Column--September Atlantic

  Franz Boas and L. Mirman

• Mr. Thornton

  Arthur Russell Taylor

• Abigail Adams: The Portrait of an American Lady

  Gamaliel Bradford

• Over My Fence

  Lucy Elliot Keeler

• The Historian of Wessex

  Helen Thomas Follett and Wilson Follett

• Critical Notes on American Poets

  Edward Garnett

• A Ridiculous Philosopher

  A. Edward Newton

• Alsace and the Step-Fatherland

  Charles Wagner

• High Adventure. Ii

  James Norman Hall

• British Tactics in the War

  H. Sidebotham

• Twilight and Dawn

  Jean Giraudoux

• Fairies

• On the Mixing of Metaphor

• My Association Hall

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