October 1917

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Articles

• Our Soldiers

  “They say in the Civil War there were two hundred thousand soldiers of sixteen years and under; eight hundred thousand of eighteen years and under, and only forty-six thousand of twenty-five and over.”

  Margaret Prescott Montague

• At Von Bissing's Headquarters

  Vernon Kellogg

• The Magical Chance

  Dallas Lore Sharp

• Carnot's Story

  James Norman Hall

• Professor's Progress. Ii: A Novel of Contemporaneous Adventure

• Oxford in War-Time

  Laurence Binyon

• Financial Imperialism

  Frederick C. Howe

• The War and the Constitution

  Henry Jones Ford

• In Turkish Quarantine

  Galene Philadelpheus

• Poetry Insurgent and Resurgent

  O. W. Firkins

• Pearls Before Swine

  Cornelia Throop Geer

• The Retinue

  Katharine Lee Bates

• We Become Pioneer Settlers

  Alice Tisdale

• Auf Wiedersehn, Berlin!

  Adele N. Phillips and Russell Phillips

• The Contributors' Column--October Atlantic

  G. N. N.

• The Challenge to Naval Supremacy

  John Hays Hammond Jr.

• France, 1916-1917: An Impression

  John Galsworthy

• The War Situation in Canada

  Benjamin Apthorp Gould

• Letters From France. I

  Charles Bernard Nordhoff

• Afternoon Tea Examined

• Of Names

• Lunch Time at the Factory

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