August 1918

Articles

• Reflections of a Draft-Board Man

  “We might prate of ideals and of righteous causes without end, but without a concrete translation of our faith, without such a weapon as the sword of the selective draft, welded, we draft men know, with what a heat, liberty might have perished, and the lights have gone out in this poor old world, while yet we talked.”

  Gordon Snow

• Castles in Spain

  A poem

  Amy Lowell

• The Direction of the War

  “I hope that Americans, looking across the ocean that unites rather than divides us, will see only the great things and take no notice of the little ones.”

  Charles A'Court Repington

• The Common Foe

  L. P. Jacks

• Dead Authors

  Agnes Repplier

• Daffodils

  Anne Douglas Sedgwick

• The New Place of Labor

  Ordway Tead

• Everyday Adventures

  Samuel Scoville Jr.

• Moonlight

  John Jay Chapman

• The Subjugation of William the Kaiser

  Virginia Baker

• The Real Paris. I

  Ernest Dimnet

• Mr. Henderson and the Labor Movement

  Alfred G. Gardiner

• Authors Who 'Go Out'

  Chauncey B. Tinker

• The Dutch Quandary

  Matthuys P. Rooseboom

• Winged Words

  Charles Bernard Nordhoff

• The Contributors' Column--August Atlantic

  James H. Taylor, L. Mirman, and Calvin Dill Wilson

• Chemistry at the Front

  Henry P. Talbot

• Pacifism as an Auxiliary of Pangermanism

  André Chéradame

• Long, Long Thoughts

• Retrieving the Airedale

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