January 1939

Articles

• I Married a Jew

  “‘Mother,’ I said quietly, ‘remember the greatest Man who ever lived was a Jew – Jesus.’ That held her for a minute. ‘Yes,’ she murmured, ‘it is the great paradox.’”

  Anonymous

• Where Now Is Britain?

  Graham Hutton

• Housing--a National Disgrace

  Charles Stevenson

• After the Shadow

  Lord Dunsany

• Wilderness Mother

  Mary E. Matheson

• The Apple Tree of Old Man Misery

• The State of the Language: 'For the Ear Trieth Words, as the Mouth Tasteth Meat'

  Wilson Follett

• Reaching for the Stars

  Nora Waln

• Germany's Purpose

  Fritz Berber

• The Safety of France

• Triumvirate

  Florence Converse

• Heaven Lies About Us

  Howard Spring

• My Cousin Dikran, the Orator

  William Saroyan

• The Ivory Tower

  E. M. Forster

• Manuel Quezon

  John Gunther

• Poems

  William Butler Yeats

• Call It Holy Ground

  Katharine Fullerton Gerould

• Château Bougainvillæa

  H. E. Bates

• Full Value Received

  Louis E. Kirstein

• The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

• Millbrook

  Dorothy Canfield

• Two Second-Generation Americans

  James T. Farrell

• Churchill: Historian and Statesman

  Ellery Sedgwick

• Chateaubriand

  John Cournos

• The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci

  Raymond S. Stites

• Toulouse-Lautrec and Goya

  Hassoldt Davis

• The Bethlehem Steel Quiz

• What Is Business?

• The Contributors' Column

  Zachary Eldridge, Daisy Dill Norton, Inez Carpenter, C. G. Uhlenberg, Lilian Andrews Farnsworth, Charles A. Goodwin, Dorothy Goodfellow, and Richard R. Gladish

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