April 1931

Articles

• Whirlwinds of Speculation

  “The pouring forth of this great torrent of new units of speculation results in the inevitable consequences dictated by the law of supply and demand.”

  Samuel Spring

• The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

• The Realm of Matter: Book Second of Realms of Being

  Theodore Morrison

• The Near East

  Edward Weeks

• Lincoln: Right or Wrong

  Charles Johnston

• Untitled Book Review

  Newton Arvin

• The Land and the Sea

  David Mccord

• Americans and Others

  Mary Ross

• The Atlantic Bookshelf: Conclusion

  A wrap up of book reviews from Edward Weeks

  Edward Weeks

• The Atlantic's List of Readable Books

• Finch's Fortune: A Novel

  Mazo De La Roche

• Unscrambling the Ether

  William Orton

• The Right to Drive

  Richard Shelton Kirby

• A Scientist Turns Poet

  Julian S. Huxley

• Country Justice

  F. Lyman Windolph

• For the Preservation of the War of 1812

  Margaret Wilson

• The Religion of Communism

  Reinhold Niebuhr

• When Buying Japanese Prints

  Ken Nakazawa

• The Unintellectual Boy

  Frederick Winsor

• Dawn

  Edward C. L. Hemsted

• The Faith of a Commander

  Paul Doncoeur

• Wasting a Billion a Year

  Lawrence Sullivan

• What Is Scientific Exactitude?

  T. Swann Harding

• The Big Top in South America

  Jay Zarado

• Common Law and the Common Welfare

  William B. Munro

• The Patriot Malgré Lui

• The Title Provocative

• The Contributors' Column

  C. M. Falconer, Richard N. Hunt, Marjorie Joy Paul, Edwin H. Armstrong, Francis H. Allen, Carl I. Shoemaker, J. Cooper Reeve, Robert S. Chalmers, C. G. Moore, Roscoe Pulliam, Carleton E. Davis, and Charles E. Kellogg

• Inside With 'Inside Information'

  Herman Gastrell Seely

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