August 1927

Articles

• Beauty the New Business Tool

  "The appeal of efficiency alone is nearly ended. Beauty is the natural and logical next step" 

  Earnest Elmo Calkins

• Pirates in Parchment

  "This pirate—the greatest of his generation, and one whose name was babbled with terror in most of the Romance tongues, and horribly mispronounced into the bargain—was never captured, but lived and died a pirate king"  

  Leslie Hotson

• Marching On

  Edward Weeks

• Mother India

  Mary L. B. Fuller

• To the Lighthouse

  Ethel Wallace Hawkins

• Welcome, Stranger! A Tribute to Ellis Island

• The Rise of American Civilization

  Victor S. Clark

• Pershing

  B. H. Liddell Hart

• The Crucifixion of the Catholic Mind

  Summerfield Baldwin

• Love Is Enough

  R. M. Gay

• Sun and Moon

  Mary Ellen Chase

• Blades of Steel

  Rudolph Fisher

• Three Chinese Poems

• Village Justice

  Albert Rhys Williams

• English Idylls

  Henry Williamson

• Newborn

  Josephine Preston Peabody

• Idols of the Cave

  Oswald Couldrey

• Overflow Notes

  Helen Murphy

• In the Andes: A Play in Two Acts

  Herbert Parrish

• President and Press

  Willis Sharp

• What Is Confiscation?

  Charles Warren

• South Africa Since the Union

  Lionel Curtis

• Something in the Eye

• The Poetic Nuisance

• Jalna: A Novel

  Mazo De La Roche

• The Contributors' Column

  R. S. C., E. C. H., Vincent H. Gowen, W. H. Klick, and G. O. Wilson

• Wall Streets Poise

  William Peter Hamilton

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