May 1940

In This Issue
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Articles
Education for a Classless Society
Charter Day Address delivered at the University of California on March 28, 1940.
The Dutch
Mr. Skeffington
Mr. Pitt and America's Birth Right
The Labyrinthine Ways
Madame Récamier
Stalin's Russia
The Loon Feather
A Southerner Discovers New England
New England Comes Back
Oh, Promised Land
Men of Marque
The Power and the Glory
Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Nineties
The Trees
Citizens
The Art and Life of William Shakespeare
A Unicorn in the Bahamas
Clara Schumann
Combat at Midnight
End of the River
A Man of Forty
Burma Road
And Then There Were None
This Way Southward
The Two Wives
Detroit, Dynamic City
The Contributors Column
French Women and War
Durham: The New South
Pilgrim's Way
The Edge
Hurt Child
Spring and a Mother Dead
The Case History of Wheat
More Truth Than Poetry: The Biography of R. S
The Green Grave and the Black Grave
The Historical Novel Walter D. Edmonds
The Negro Novel: Richard Wright
Will Hogg, Texan
