April 1937

Articles

• The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

• Arthur James Balfour, 1848-1930

  Sidney B. Fay

• We Are Not Alone

  R. M. Gay

• The Russian Artist

  John N. Burk

• A War Biography

  A. W. Smith

• Paradise, an Historical Romance

  Frances Winwar

• The Atlantic Bookshelf: Conclusion

  A wrap up of book reviews from Edward Weeks

  Edward Weeks

• The Contributors' Column

  Key Pittman, Albert A. Richards, Claude E. Johnson, A. E. Bruce, Jewell F. Stevens, Kate Bailey Hinman, William Francis Hooker, David J. Malcolm, M. D. Adcock, John Foster Dulles, Elbert D. Thomas, Elaine Ward Cogswell, and Ralph Rutenber

• Prose Writers, Attention!

  THE prize of fifty dollars for the best essay on ‘Hot Water’ has been awarded to Ralph Rutenber of Danbury, Connecticut. A total of 1149 essays was submitted; the judges gradually reduced this field until but two finalists remained, the prize winner and the second choice, written by Elaine W. Cogswell of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. We print them in order.

• London on Edge

  John Gunther

• Fear the Facts and Fool the Women

  Margaret Dana

• Lawrence: An Unofficial Portrait

  Eric H. Kennington

• A Letter From the Tropics

  Albert Jay Nock

• On the Assembly Line

  Gene Richard

• The Law and Labor

  George E. Sokolsky

• Sunday Night Supper

  Della T. Lutes

• Evening on a Coral Island

  James Norman Hall

• Hollywood

  William Wister Haines

• Sonnet

  Esther Dette

• Intimate Vision

  Josephine Bates

• The Gamble of Home Ownership

  Clifford B. Reeves

• The Soldier's Song

  L. A. G. Strong

• The Health of the Nation

  Esther Everett Lape

• Shakespeare--With a Difference

  Walter Prichard Eaton

• Old Reynard in Springtime

  Mazo De La Roche

• School on Pitcairn

  Roy Palmer Clark

• Pegasus in Prison

  Hilda Hinckley

• Round the Horn

  Bill Adams

• Comfort That Turned Cold

  James Norman Hall

• On Browsing

• Nature's Smile

• Clear Track: The New Spirit in American Railroading

  Arthur Pound

• Penny Stocks

  H. B. Elliston

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