October 1942

Articles

• Will the Christian Church Survive?

  "Any significant impact of the Church upon the day whose sun is sinking into a confusing twilight, or upon the tomorrow which struggles in the womb of night, must necessarily be an impact of challenge, of opposition"

  Bernard Iddings Bell

• The American Way: A Conversation Piece

  Maxim Karolik

• The Year of Decision 1846

  Bernard Devoto

• Letters Save Lives

• Seagulls

  Robert Francis

• What America Should Be Reading

• An Admiral Who Was Right: The Capable Biography of Admiral Sims

  William Mcfee

• The Underground in Italy: A Novel Which Prophesies the Uprising Ahead

  George De Santillana

• First Person Singular

  Edward Weeks

• Last Train From Berlin

  C. W. Morgan

• Desert War

  William Henry Chamberlin

• This Great Journey

  George E. Taylor

• Tap Roots

  Richard Ely Danielson

• Sun in Capricorn

  John Cournos

• How War Came

  C. W. Morgan

• This Side of Land

  Robert M. Gay

• Retreat to Victory

  T. H. Thomas

• Fire and Ice; The Art and Thought of Robert Frost

  Theodore Spencer

• The White Queen

  Elizabeth Drew

• Gentleman Ranker

  Wilson Follett

• For My Great Folly

  Richard Ely Danielson

• The Seventh Cross

  Robert M. Gay

• And There Were Men

  Wallace Stegner

• The Nazi Conquest of Danzig

  William Henry Chamberlin

• Dollar Cotton

  Robert M. Gay

• The Drums of Morning

  Wilson Follett

• Plume Rouge

  Richard Ely Danielson

• Golden Fleece

  Wallace Stegner

• The Sound of an American

  John Cournos

• With Japan's Leaders

  William Henry Chamberlin

• Farmer's Girl

  Wilson Follett

• The Rider on the Bronze Horse

  John Cournos

• Apple in the Attic

  Elizabeth Drew

• The Mediterranean

  William Mcfee

• The Uninvited

  Robert M. Gay

• Latin America

• The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington

• How to Stop Inflation

• European Front

• The Little Locksmith

  Katharine Butler Hathaway

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