April 1933

Articles

• Confessions of a Novelist

  “What I mean to try for is the observation of that strange moment when the vaguely adumbrated characters whose adventures one is preparing to record are suddenly there, themselves, in the flesh, in possession of one, and in command of one’s voice and hand.”

  Edith Wharton

• Life of Joseph Chamberlain, Vol. 1

• Carson the Advocate

  Esllery Sedgwick

• The Atlantic Bookshelf: Conclusion

  A wrap up of book reviews from Edward Weeks

  Edward Weeks

• The Atlantic's List of Readable Books

• Health and Happiness in Summer Camps

• Friendly Rivalry in Private Schools

• The Contributors' Column

  Bill Adams, A. W., Julia Florence Alexander, Rose Thompson Jenkins, and Gertrude S. Eells

• Financial Independence

  Arthur W. Joyce

• The Veteran Racket

  Lawrence Sullivan

• The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

• Andrew Jackson

  Bennett Champ Clark

• Truth in Advertising

  Don Knowlton

• Our Political Monstrosities

  Frank R. Kent

• Students in a Hick College

  Wendell Brooks Phillips

• Salt of the Earth

  Rose Elizabeth Reiss

• Three Marriages: The House of Exile. Iii

  Nora Waln

• In Hospital

  Laurence Binyon

• The Lost Art of Play

  Earnest Elmo Calkins

• Retrospect: The Innocent Eye

  Herbert Read

• Thoughts Revealed

  Freda C. Bond

• Good Old Stormy

  Bill Adams

• Radio City: From Real Estate to Art

  M. R. Werner

• Foxglove: The Midst of Life. Iv

  Mina Curtiss

• Silver Magpies

  Stanley Casson

• From Insull to Injury: A Study in Financial Jugglery

  N. R. Danielian

• To a Lady Who Complains I Ride Too Early

  Agnes K. Carruth

• On Taking Golf Seriously

  Walter Prichard Eaton

• Aunt Agatha's Mail

  William Watrous Deats

• Effie

  Randall Brown

• Within the Civil War

  Bernard Devoto

• The History of the Russian Revolution, Vols. Ii and Iii

  Bruce Hopper

• Criticism of Life

  Mary Ross

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