January 1919

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Articles

• The Idea of a League of Nations

  "What has happened is essentially this, that the natural limitations upon warfare which have existed hitherto appear to have broken down."

  Herbert George Wells

• The Remarkable Rightness of Rudyard Kipling

  Kipling could get an audience for tales and ballads and jungle-books; but the moment he tried to speak nationally, he could not get an audience. Even now, they would rather read H. G. Wells.

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

• The Russian

• Germany in Solution

  Victor S. Clark

• On the Evening of the New Day

  Samuel McChord Crothers

• Freedom of the Seas and Our Merchant Marine

  Bernard N. Baker

• New Year's Thoughts on Taking Sides

  M. A. DeWolfe Howe

• The Splendor of the Commonplace

• The Emancipation of Man

• Animus in Carcere

• The Trenches and the Church at Home

  Harry Emerson Fosdick

• The Irish Mind

  Henry Seidel Canby

• The Photographer of Silver Mountain

  Peter Blackthorn

• My Red Crosseries

  Agnes B. Chowen

• The Names

  Grace Hazard Conkling

• Birds of a Feather: Iii. Exit Flagada

  Marcel Nadaud

• The New Slavery

  Christopher L. Ward

• Burial Party

  Robert Nichols

• With the Tanks: Ii. Then Wander Forth the Sons of Belial

  Harold A. Littledale

• Squadrons of the Air

  Charles Bernard Nordhoff

• The Contributors' Column--January Atlantic

  John Koren, M. G. Van Rensselaer, A. Nonymous, and C. B. M.

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