November 1939

Articles

• City Without Children

  A correspondent describes the early days of Britain's war with Germany when, in anticipation of bombings and gassings, more than half a million children were sent away from London.

  Storm Jameson

• For Armistice Day

  "In the capitals and great cities of the Allies the civilian populations were shrieking and dancing in an orgy of hysterical triumph and rejoicing. But in the armies there was silence."

  Richard Aldington

• Last Hours in Germany

  Herbert G. Sonthoff

• The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

• The Nazarene

  John Cournos

• Four-Part Setting

  Ethel Wallace Hawkins

• Journey to a War

  Mildred Boie

• My Life: Autobiography of Havelock Ellis

  Gregory Zilboorg

• I'd Walk a Mile for 'The Youngest Camel'

  Margaret Fishback

• An American Artist's Story

  Francis Henry Taylor

• Daniel Boone: Master of the Wilderness

  Richard Ely Danielson

• English Quartet

  Frances Woodward

• The Contributors' Column

  Gerald Donoghue, C. W. Kellogg, and Jared S. Moore

• The Editor Speaking

• Business Looks Ahead

  Sumner H. Slichter

• Do You Stutter?

  Charles Van Riper

• Lord Halifax

  Carl Joachim Friedrich

• Women on Wheels

  Geoffrey Household

• I Like Bad Boys

  J. M. Braude

• Evening Meal in the Twentieth Century

  John Holmes

• New Coöperation in Industry

  Lewis H. Brown

• Nobility Wanted

  Howard Mumford Jones

• William Faulkner: The Novel as Form

  Conrad Aiken

• Chris

  Hugo Johanson

• The Ethics of Advertising

  William Allen White

• Now We Are Ten

  George Allen

• We Had Until the Harvest

  Mavis Clare Barnett

• The Duty of a Pacifist

  C. E. M. Joad

• Tenants

  ESSAYISTS young and old, known and unknown, are invited to compete for the Club. A prize of $250 will be posted each month for the most distinctive essay of a thousand words. It gives us great pleasure to confer the November award on Robert Shelby Darbishire, of Stanford, Kentucky, a newcomer to the Atlantic.

  Robert Shelby Darbishire

• Happiness

  James Norman Hall

• The Welcome

  Sascha Cummins

• The Originals

  Reuel Denney

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

  Wilson Follett

• Land Below the Wind

  Agnes Newton Keith

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