April 1944

Articles

• The Mass-Man: Hitler

  Hans Kohn

• Lay That Pistol Down

  Gordon Kahn

• Day of Wrath

  Evangeline Davis

• Radio's Sceneshifters

  Robert Graham

• Baron Munchausen

  Oscar Williams

• Just Painting

  Patrick Morgan

• Pawnshop

  Frederick Ebright

• The Peripatetic Reviewer

  Edward Weeks

• Unfinished Business

  Allan Nevins

• The Elizabethan World Picture

  George N. Shuster

• Cone of Silence

  Lucy Tompkins

• Camille Pissarro: Letters to His Son Lucien

  Leo Lerman

• The Loom of Language

  I. A. Richards

• Blessed Are the Meek

  Leo Lerman

• Left Hand, Right Hand!

  SOME ancient houses have storied in them the character, the beauty, and the trophies of experience which a vigorous family hands down the centuries. Such is Renishaw Hall, which, since 1625, has been enlarged and reanimated by the Sitwells. Hottempered and reckless, scholarly and passionate and adventuresome, this family is in miniature a portrait gallery of England.

  Osbert Sitwell

• Latin America

• The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington

• European Front

• Are Americans Suckers?

  Gerald W. Johnson

• The Wizard From Connecticut

  Jean Burton

• The Bird

  Conrad Aiken

• Against Basic English

  Rose Macaulay

• From the Top of the Stairs

  Gretchen Finletter

• Making a Man of Him

  Leonid Sobolev

• Tuputala

  Robert P. Parsons

• I'll Never Know

  John S. Huntington

• Upstairs

  Robert P. Tristram Coffin

• The Lady Likes Business

  Aimee Buchanan

• The Needs of Peace

  William Beveridge

• Fenestralia

  Max Beerbohm

• Aesop

  Mary Grant

• The Pacific War

• The Leaven of Conscience

  Jacques Maritain

• I Am a Bureaucrat

  Jonathan Daniels

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