December 1939

In This Issue
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Articles
The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books
Abraham Lincoln: The War Years
Land Below the Wind
Free Artist
Craven Your Pardon
The Contributors' Column
The Like and Times of William Howard Taft
John Fante vs. John Selby
Michael Beam
Edward Lear
The Atlantic Bookshelf: Conclusion
A wrap up of book reviews from Edward Weeks
The Man Who Gave Us Christmas
Labor and the War
Jacob Epstein
I Run for Congress
Grandma Robinson
Night and the Lost Armies
The Ploughing
Really You Americans
On the Death of a King
Museums in a Changing World
The Children of Shallowford
Renewal
Winter Dawn in a Country Kitchen
The Reform of the Schools
Dickens, Carlyle, and Tennyson
Evidence
What Help From Russia?
Canada Speaking
France Makes Up Her Mind
Flowers of Switzerland
Jorkens Among the Ghosts
Atlantic Breakfast--1879
The State of the Language: 'For the Ear Trieth Words, as the Mouth Tasteth Meat'
Land Below the Wind
