May 1918

Articles

• The Growth of Dictatorship

  “The true constitution of a country is always the actual distribution of power.”

  Henry Jones Ford

• The Pacifist at War

  “He cannot expect it to be the final war; but it may be the last great war. In this sense, then, it is a war to prevent war.”

  Henry Rutgers Marshall

• The Contributors' Column--May Atlantic

  Joseph L. Wheeler and Stephen P. Duggan

• The New Death

  Winifred Kirkland

• 'What Might Have Been': An Episode in the Life of Charles Lamb

  A. Edward Newton

• The Russian Character

  A. G. Tolfree

• God's Little Joke: A Story of the Polygamous City

• After Battle

  Louise Morgan Sill

• The German Outlook for Parliamentary Government

  A. D. Mclaren

• Water Brooks

  Robert M. Gay

• Adventures in Indigence: Iv. Horatio

  Laura Spencer Portor

• Bill

  Sidney A. Merriam

• Earth Upon Earth: A Mediæval Poem Revised

  Laura A. Hibbard

• Science in the Humanities

  Ellwood Hendrick

• Russian Sidelights

  Arthur Ruhl

• The Dark Hour

  Wilbur Daniel Steele

• High Adventure. V

  James Norman Hall

• Prussian Manners

  C. Journelle

• Ordinary Seamen, u.s.n

  Joseph Husband

• Praise of Open Fires

• The Poet at the Dinner-Table

• Last Christmas

• Wayside Faces

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