September 1917

In This Issue
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Articles
The Axe-Helve
A poem
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.”
It Is Well With the Child
A poem
Professor's Progress: A Novel of Contemporaneous Adventure
Socialism and Internationalism
Narrative of Captain Silas Jones: From the Log of the Awashonks
Haunted Lives
The Contributors' Column--September Atlantic
Mr. Thornton
Abigail Adams: The Portrait of an American Lady
Over My Fence
The Historian of Wessex
Critical Notes on American Poets
A Ridiculous Philosopher
Alsace and the Step-Fatherland
High Adventure. Ii
British Tactics in the War
Twilight and Dawn
Fairies
On the Mixing of Metaphor
My Association Hall
