April 1919

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Articles

• The Peace-Makers

  An inside account of the Paris Peace Conference and the creation of the League of Nations

  Simeon Strunsky

• Immigration and the Labor-Supply

  “It is my belief that immigration from Europe will decrease after the war, but that that decrease will not be a menace to our industrial and commercial advancement. In the long run, I believe that it will, instead, be a benefit.”

  Don D. Lescohier

• Combat

  A poem

  John Lavalle

• Redrawing the Map of Europe

  “A conference called to give peace to the world must begin by tending the world’s fences. … The map of Europe on which we were brought up has passed forever into the limbo of discarded things.”

  Charles Downer Hazen

• The Middle West’s Peace Problems

  “The past four years have widened the farmer’s horizon greatly. Where he once thought in terms of the neighborhood, he learned to think in world-terms. All the multiplicity of events connected with the war taught him a new geography.”

  Charles Moreau Harger

• The Atlantic's Bookshelf

• The British Navy in Battle

  H. B. B.

• Another Sheaf

  M. S.

• Eminent Victorians

  W. F.

• Living Bayonets

  E. E. H.

• War and Revolution in Russia, 1914-1917

  J. C.

• The New America

  P. R. F.

• Contributors' Column--April Atlantic

  Jessie E. Miner

• The Sage-Brush Farmer's Wife

  Annie Pike Greenwood

• Dreams and Compound Interest

  Haldeman-Julies

• The Airman's Escape

  George W. Puryear

• German Colonial Administration

  Evans Lewin

• The Philosopher's Stone

  James Harvey Robinson

• Lesser Victories

  Charlotte Kellogg

• An American Idyll. Ii: Episodes in the Life of Carleton H. Parker

  Cornella Stratton Parker

• War Poems of Yesterday and to-Day

  Gerald Chittenden

• Weeds Above the Snow

  Walter Prichard Eaton

• His Letter

  Grace Hazard Conkling

• Our Village

• A Green Hill Far Away

  John Galsworthy

• The Demobilized Professor

• The Devastation of Northern France

  Germain Martin

• William James: A Belated Acknowledgment

• My Bolsheviki

• Commuting With and by Books

• A Domestic Python

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