February 1922

Articles

• The Buying of Books

  "Sometimes, when I have bought a book that I did not seriously need, and could not afford, and am a little ashamed go home, I make an inscription in it: 'To my dear wife, upon her birthday; many happy returns'"  

  Carl S. Patton

• Facing the Prison Problem

  “Almost anything will be an improvement. It cannot be worse. It cannot be more brutal and more useless. A farm, a school, a hospital, a factory, a playground—almost anything different will be better.”

  Frank Tannenbaum

• Fifty Years a Journalist

  Frederick L. Allen

• Messer Marco Polo

  Katharine Lee Bates

• Chimneysmoke

  Fannie Stearns Gifford

• The New World of Islam

  Julia Swift Orvis

• Selected Letters of Friedrich Nietzsche/the Nietzsche-Wagner Correspondence

  H. L. Mencken

• American Misgivings

  Cornelia James Cannon

• Boswell Takes a Wife

  Chauncey B. Tinker

• Studies in Patriotism

  William Mcfee

• Jack the Robber

  A. H. Singleton

• The Iron Man and the Mind

  Arthur Pound

• Time

  Katharine Lee Bates

• The Passing of New England

  Margaret Baldwin

• How Lincoln Came to School No. 300

  William O. Stoddard Jr.

• We Creators

  Olive Tilford Dargan

• Attention!

  Olive Tilford Dargan

• Our Common Enterprise: A Way Out for Labor and Capital

  Waddill Catchings

• Gallows Bank

  Wilfrid Wilson Gibson

• Prisoners of the Dead

  Frances Norville Chapman

• No Courtship at Ali

• The German Mind

  Hellmut Von Gerlach

• The Limitation of Naval Armaments

  Hector C. Bywater

• Europe: An Impressionist View

  Victor S. Clark

• What Kind of a Snob Are You?

• The Land of Lost Allusion

• The Growing World

• A Footnote to Mr. Newton

• The Contributors' Column

  Arthur N. Conner, Isabel Chipman, May Ladd Simonson, M. B. Feurer, J. D. Burrell, W. W. D., Ida M. Scherer, and Lucy B. Crain

• The Atlantic's Bookshelf

• Collected Poems

  Florence Converse

• Herman Melville, Mariner and Mystic

  Philip Hale

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