July 1942

Articles

• The Image of Victory

  Archibald Macleisii

• First Person Singular

  Edward Weeks

• What America Should Be Reading

• Children of Abraham

  Robert M. Gay

• Agent in Italy

  George De Santillana

• I Remember Christine

  Richard Ely Danielson

• The Unknown Country

  William Henry Chamberlin

• Angel With Spurs

  Richard Ely Danielson

• Victory in the Pacific

  William Henry Chamberlin

• The Knight of El Dorado

  John Cournos

• Heroes I Have Known

  Mary Gault

• The Tools of War

  William Henry Chamberlin

• You Can't Be Too Careful

  Robert M. Gay

• Memoirs of an Epicurean

  Wilson Follett

• Underground Europe

  Richard Ely Danielson

• Japan: A World Problem

  William Henry Chamberlin

• No Limits but the Sky

  Ellery Sedgwick

• The Sixth Column

  William Henry Chamberlin

• Uncensored France

  Richard Ely Danielson

• A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles From Ancient and Modern Sources

  Wilson Follett

• The Amazing Roosevelt Family, 1613-1942

• Ramparts of the Pacific

  T. H. Thomas

• The French in the West Indies

  William Henry Chamberlin

• The Abuse of Patents

  » Next to winning the war, there is no subject so fraught with national consequence as the Department of Justice’s investigation of the patent pools. The process of invention is the mainspring of our business activity. How shall it be regulated in the post-war world?

  Thurman W. Arnold

• We Depend on Invention: An Answer to Thurman Arnold

  Lawrence Langner

• Law and Manners

  Lord Moulton

• I Like Skunks

  Louise Dickinson Rich

• Resurgent

  Robert Hillyer

• Middlebrow: A Letter Written but Not Sent

  Virginia Woolf

• Mobilizing American Youth

  » The President of Harvard University proposes broadening the basis for selecting oflicer material for college training.

  James Bryant Conant

• A New Basis for Pan-American Trade

  Luis Quintanilla

• To the Four Far Corners

  » The airmen’s earth is truly round. It is with strings on globes, not rulers on navigation charts, that the officers of the Ferry Command plot out their distances, says Archibald MacLeish in “The Image of Victory.”

  W. L. White

• Proprietor

  Christopher Morley

• Sergei Prokofiev

  Nicolas Nabokov

• Excursion to Norway: Commando in Action

  R. C. Hutchinson

• Women and Dynamite

  Robert Easton

• The Year of Decision

  Henry David Thoreau and Bernard Devoto

• Two in a Canoe

  Paul Brooks

• A Messenger of Freedom: Esther Forbes's Canny Portrait of the Real Paul Revere

  Burke Boyce

• The Story of Sacajawea: An Indian Love Lyric

  Bernard Devoto

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