March 1939

Articles

• What Makes an American?

  "To become an American is a process which resembles a conversion. It is not so much a new country that one adopts as a new creed."

  Raoul de Roussy de Sales

• Atlantic Repartee

  Robert Nathan, Alice F. Hayden, Helen Price Harvey, Gertrude Park, Charles F. Speare, Robert Herder, Dwight E. Woodbridge, Ralph M. Jones, and A. Freiberg

• The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

• The Arab Awakening

  Victor S. Clark

• Elihu Root

  Allen W. Dulles

• Man's Hope

  John Walcott

• Unforgotten Years

  Florence Converse

• When There Is No Peace

  H. B. Elliston

• In Memoriam: Annie Sullivan

  Alexander Woollcott

• An Appeal to Sanity

  Alfred North Whitehead

• It Is Later Than You Think

  C. R. Walker

• I Married a Gentile

• Letters of T. E. Lawrence

• 'Seeing Gardens in the Spring'

  Frances Woodward

• The Wedding Journey

  Walter D. Edmonds

• Thou Art My Long-Lost Place

  Walter De La Mare

• On Greenest Grass

  Laurence Binyon

• The Defeat of the Schools

  James L. Mursell

• Heaven Lies About Us

  Howard Spring

• Japan Goes Fishing

  William Henry Chamberlin

• Mexico's Defense

  Andrés Molina Enríquez

• Pan-American Peace

  Albert Grand

• Dunant: The Story of the Red Cross

  Richard De Roussy De Sales

• Over the Beeches

  Josephine Young Case

• The Ox

  H. E. Bates

• Under Thirty

  Aldo Misik, Alice Spohn, and J. P. B.

• Winter Ploughing

  Ernest Moll

• Anyone Can Drive Dogs

  Elizabeth Chabot Forrest

• A Sour Pie

  Eleanor Risley

• Consider the Ant

  Burges Johnson

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

  Wilson Follett

• Reaching for the Stars

  Nora Waln

• The Contributors' Column

  Charles Stevenson, Mary W. Walker, William H. Hayward, J. W. Klapman, Isaac Siegel, Joseph Siegel, and Henry M. Siegel

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