February 1934

Articles

• The Roosevelt Experiment

  “The Roosevelt experiment, in a word, is a systematic effort to put capitalism into leading strings of principle. It is to be the servant, and not the master, of the American people.”

  Harold J. Laski

• The Fight on the Securities Act

  "Last June, the Securities Act passed both houses of Congress without a dissenting vote.... Then began a well-subsidized campaign of propaganda against the Act to force its abolition under guise of amendment."  

  Bernard Flexner

• Music

  Theodore Chanler

• Lincoln and Liquor

  William H. Townsend

• The Atlantic Bookshelf: Conclusion

  A wrap up of book reviews from Edward Weeks

  Edward Weeks

• The Great Diarist

  Chauncey Brewster Tinker

• Vocabulary and Success

  Johnson O’Connor

• The Twilight of the Business Woman

  Philip Curtiss

• Late Love

  Paul Hoffman

• As We Have Become

  E. F. Benson

• Marx and Lenin Made a Plan

  Florence Converse

• At Home on the Equator: Letters From the South Seas

  Hortense Powdermaker

• The Genteel Burglar

  Carol Bache

• A Neglected Language

  Henry S. Drinker Jr.

• If the Lilies Are Down

  Louisa Butler

• Airway Down the Andes

  Francis Drake and Katharine Drake

• Seesaw

  William Rose Benét

• A Bird's Reason

  Charles D. Stewart

• The Contributors' Column

  Robert Hall Valentine and Charles D. Stewart

• The Deacon Deals With Lawyers

• A Footnote to 'Daisy Miller'

  Edgar J. Goodspeed

• Gregory Samples School

• The Doll-Babies' Dresses

• Self-Analysis

• The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

• The Mother

  R. M. Gay

• John Henry Newman

  E. S.

• Rabble in Arms

  Walter D. Edmonds

• Within This Present

  Marian Vaillant

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