February 1940

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Articles
Table of Contents
The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books
Verdun
America Looks at the War
In Place of Splendor
Ideas Are Weapons
Hollywood Composer
No. 38 Becomes a Citizen
Isles of Spice and Lilies
A Turning Wind
Self-Portrait of an Artist
But People Must Eat
The Trampling Herd
Johann Strauss, Father and Son
The Casket of Pandora
Mother's Calling!
The Boy From Vermont
Diary of Captivity
The Dies Committee: An Appraisal
Abby, Her Farm
Bernadette of Lourdes
The Turning Glass--Pasadena
On the Finnish Front
Housing Comes Home to Congress
'Really You Americans'
Communion
Vermont Speaking
Song, From the Gulf
Death by Water
The State of the Language: 'For the Ear Trieth Words, as the Mouth Tasteth Meat'
More Truth Than Poetry
The Contributors' Column
