May 1932

Articles

• The World's Economic Outlook

  In the midst of the Great Depression, British economist John Maynard Keynes considered the prospects for capitalism’s survival.

  John Maynard Keynes

• The Work, Wealth, and Happiness of Mankind

  David Friday

• Spring Novels

  R. M. Gay

• Untitled Book Review

  Arthur Pound

• The Atlantic Bookshelf: Conclusion

  A wrap up of book reviews from Edward Weeks

  Edward Weeks

• The Contributors' Column

  James Norman Hall, James L. Barton, Mildred E. Dunegan, Clara E. Randall, R. W. Nygren, Agnes Cady Chitwood, Eleanor S. Biggs, E. G. Thomson, Emma G. M. Estey, Henry Ohlhoff, and Zoe Palmer

• Financial Liabilities--and Insurance

  Arthur W. Joyce

• Westward

  A. Edward Newton

• The Hungry City: A Mayor's Experience With Unemployment

  Joseph L. Heffernan

• Young Man in Love: A Journal of Ninety Years Ago

  Robert A. Murdoch

• English as She Will Be Spoke

  Ernest Weekley

• A Starry Night at Arué

  James Norman Hall

• Edward L. Bernays: The Science of Ballyhoo

  John T. Flynn

• Episode at the Pawpaws

  Louis Reed

• 'Peace, Good Tickle-Brain': An Inedited Conversation of Jack Falstaff and Nell Quickly

  Robert M. Gay

• Prayer for Weariness

  Douglas Malloch

• But Is It Art?

  William Orton

• A Candle for Saint Boniface

  Edgar J. Goodspeed

• Od's Fish

  Charles D. Stewart

• Mrs. Gowan Gives Notice

  Mary Ellen Chase

• The University in American Life

  Abraham Flexner

• What a Hundred Years Have Done to Us: Balance Sheet of the United States for 1832

• Golden Days

  John Coleman Jr.

• Under Fire: Letters From the Manchurian Border

  Nora Waln

• To the Author of a Vegetarian Villanelle

  Leander T. Decelles

• Pedagogues Love Poverty

  Maurice Hughes

• Unwritten Books

  Philip Wagner

• Are All the Poets Dead?

  Wilfred J. Funk

• The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

• The Life of Emerson

  Gorham Munson

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