January 1930
In This Issue
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Articles
The Practice of Censorship
"Censorship wherever it exists is as much a problem for the police as for the critics. And, like the poor, it is always with us."
The Theory of Censorship
"The present paper aims not at making a novel contribution but at extricating from the confusion the accepted truths, in the hope that the remaining points of difference may be seen more clearly and perhaps brought nearer to reconciliation."
The Break in the Credit Chain
"It is all very well to say that the customers were foolish. But when a system prevails which caters to the folly of too large a proportion of a population, a proportion so large that the destruction of its purchasing power is of concern to every business in the land, then it deserves serious attention."
Thrills
A veteran trapeze artist describes the intoxicating feeling of flying high without a safety net
The Genius of the Average: Calvin Coolidge
Götterdämmerung
Islam and Ourselves
Shelley's Lost Letters to Harriet
The Passing of Pippa
How Death May Feel
Pointing the View
Self-Sufficiency
The Contributors' Column
The Gambolier
A Batman at Large
Lincoln's Washington: Recollections of a Journalist Who Knew Everybody
Ballad of a Curious Encounter
Wildcat Settlement
Government and Opposition
The Last of the Squires
A Leave-Taking
The Psychology of French Politics
The Anti-Religious Front
The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books
The Dissenting Opinions of Mr. Justice Holmes
English Novels
King Spider
Americans Of Intellect
The Atlantic Bookshelf: Conclusion
A wrap up of book reviews from Edward Weeks
Timing One's Investments
Leslie Hotsons Discovery of Shelley's Lost Letters to Harriet
