February 1945

Articles

• The Creed of an American Zionist

  Milton Steinberg

• Twilight of a Faun

  Robert Fontaine

• Uh Huh?

  Mary Maxtom

• Requiem

  E. D. Vaughan

• As the Escrow Flies

  Gordon Kahn

• Corn

  Frank C. Hibben

• Confucius

  Langdon Warner

• Our Slightly Confused Tradition

  W. S. B. Tate

• Olympian

  William Rose Benét

• The Peripatetic Reviewer

  Edward Weeks

• Battle Report

  Sherman Miles

• Wife to Mr. Milton

  Eleanor Ruggles

• Artist in Iowa

  Leo Lerman

• My Country

  John Holmes

• One Day on Beetle Rock

  David Mccord

• Gabriel Galloway

  SUMMARY. — This is the story of three generations of an Irish family. In the small, crumbling village of Castlerampart, the most prominent man is Theodore Coniffe, the village landlord. He is as penny-pinching as his wife Katherine is vain. Their two daughters, Theresa and Sara, grow up to be young ladies of property, if not of good looks. While they are still in their teens, Katherine dies in giving birth to her third daughter, Lily. The older girls assume the responsibility of Lily’s upbringing and she becomes the timid Cinderella of the household. She is sixteen years younger than Theresa, and the bossing she receives from her oldest sister threatens to drain the youth from Lily’s not very robust character.
  The household is upset when a young lawyer appears in the village. Old Theodore sees in Cornelius Galloway a potential son-in-law. Cornelius divides his attention between Theresa and Sara, but on an enchanted evening it is to Lily, the sixteen-year-old, that he proposes. After their honeymoon, the newlyweds drive home in their new coach (bought at Theodore’s expense), an extravagance which at first nettles and then tickles the old man. Cornelius is a spender. He buys a spirited mare and rides to hounds with the local gentry. He starts to build a new house outside town, but his career is cut short when, in the fifth month of his marriage, he is killed in the hunting field.

  Mary Lavin

• Latin America

• The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington

• European Front

• Our Tent Hospitals in France

  Monica Stirling

• British Trade and American Policy

  Raymond P. Baldwin

• The Test

  Theodore Morrison

• Political Pressures in Asia

  Owen Lattimore

• Old Bill Bent to Drink

  Ben Hur Lampman

• Commemoration of Fascism

  G. A. Borgese

• Deans Within Deans

  Jacques Barzun

• The Pacific War

• Breaking the Building Blockade

  Robert Lasch

• Pine Hill

  John Ciardi

• Colonel Motley

  H. E. Bates

• Thomas J. Wise and His Forgeries

  John Carter

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