February 1918

Articles

• The Case for Humility

  “Before our educational system can furnish us the help that it should, the Humanist must learn … to abandon his faith in the mechanical and quantitative methods which belong to science, and to set about the task of reinstating the past in the present.”

  R. K. Hack

• The Clue

  “The blasted hillsides smoking under the continual rain of death. Countless fresh shell-holes all around us. The graves reopened.”

  William Townsend Porter

• To N.S., Who Died in Battle

  A poem

• Peter Sat by the Fire Warming Himself

  Joseph H. Odell

• Adventures in Indigence. I

  Laura Spencer Portor

• Neighbor Hans

  Wilfred A. Joubert

• Cherry Valley

  Katherine Mayo

• From Sea to Mountain-Top in Malaysia

  William Beebe

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

• One of Them. Ii

  Elizabeth Hasanovitz

• Loyalty Once More

  L. P. Jacks

• Why Teach?

  Robert M. Gay

• The Military Geography of Palestine

  H. Sidebotham

• The Return of Mr. Squem

  Arthur Russell Taylor

• The Ancient Beautiful Things

  Fannie Stearns Gifford

• Keeping School Under Fire

  Octave Forsant

• The Contributors' Column--February Atlantic

• High Adventure. Iv

  James Norman Hall

• A Mayor in Alsace

  Dan Blumenthal

• The Author as Critic

• The Perils of Telepathy

• Fletcherizing in Literature

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