July 1936

Articles

• An Approach to Social Security

  John G. Winant

• The Contributors’ Club: American Type

  A new “race” emerges after a huge wave of immigration

• A More Modest Proposal

  In brief, let us freeze up those few millions of the unemployed who yet remain  

  Lawrence Garrett

• The Self-Made Man

  William Laidlaw

• The Swing to the Left in France

  Raoul de Roussy de Sales

• The Right Minority in France

  Raymond Lange

• Kite Flying in China

  Hsin-Min Wu

• Allergy

• American Type

• Young Mortality

  Glanville Smith

• The House of Laughter

  Agnes Repplier

• Inflation Upside Down

  Richard Dana Skinner

• Moose River Mine

  W. E. Gallie

• Lieutenant Pearson

  Benedict Thielen

• The Next Fear

  George Allen

• Plain or Fancy Gardener

  A. W. Smith

• The Ancient Well

  Leonard Bacon

• Housekeeping in Rhodesia

  Theo E. Hewitt

• The American Eagle

  Charles D. Stewart

• What Is Being Done About Cancer

  M. G. Seelig

• Dog in a Car

  David Mccord

• The Landmark

  John Holmes

• Graveyard in the Hills

  James Still

• Through a Glass Darkly

  Stephen Leacock

• A Garden of Ships and Bells: (Government House, Sydney)

  Ethel Anderson

• The American Language: An Inquiry Into the Development of English in the United States

  Wilson Follett

• The Prophets of Israel

  Albert Jay Nock

• From a Surgeon's Journal (1915-1918)

  J. G. Harbord

• The Heritage of the Bounty

  Carleton S. Coon

• The Atlantic Bookshelf: Conclusion

  A wrap up of book reviews from Edward Weeks

  Edward Weeks

• Notes on the Advertising of Books

  S. P.

• The Diary of a Prudent Investor. Iv

  Merryle Stanley Rukeyser

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