August 1947

Articles

• Are Americans Polygamous?

  Is marriage a failed institution in America? Is it polygamy that we're looking for?

  David L. Cohn

• This Month

  C. W. M.

• The Hound in the Stadium

  Karl F. Zeisler

• Cook's Tour

  Crosby Gaige

• Chair in the Field

  John Holmes

• Squid

  Lorus J. Milne

• Legends of Lyric Land

  Russell Maloney

• Portrait of an Artist

  Margaret Mackenzie

• Home, Squeezed Homo

  Edwin Bateman Morris

• Harmonica

  Howard Griffin

• Aldous Huxley

  Charles J. Rolo

• The Reviewing of Books

  Henry Seidel Canby

• The Peripatetic Reviewer

  Edward Weeks

• The Far East

• Books That Edify

  Dorothy Canfield Fisher

• Linden on the Saugus Branch

  Russell Maloney

• For the Defense

  A. W.

• Prince of Foxes

  Phoebe Lou Adams

• The Story of Architecture in Mexico

  Mackinley Helm

• Washington

• Can We Aid Europe?

  N. R. Danielian

• Atomic Energy

• Religion and Civilization

  Norman Thomas

• The Recovery of the Davis Cup

  Walter L. Pate

• To a Snake

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

• Cramming for the Cavalry

  Osbert Sitwell

• Shut a Final Door

  Truman Capote

• Should a Biographer Tell?

  Wilfred Partington

• Grandpa's Sign

  Ruth Mckenney

• No Dogs Bark

  Hugh Chisholm

• How Big Is Texas?

  Texas, the only state which was once a nation under its own flag, is bigger than France with Belgium, Holland, and Switzerland thrown in, and this heritage of size has affected the behavior of every native son. We know that Texas is the biggest and potentially the richest state in the Union. But how about its political leadership? How about its attitude toward the Negro and the Mexican? How about the integrity of its educational system? How about the conservation of its resources? For answer we turn to Dixon Wecter, a Texan born and bred, a historian whose books are widely respected, and an author who has been appointed literary editor of the Mark Twain estate.

  Dixon Wecter

• The Muse and Mr. Parkinson

  James B. Gidney

• The Man Who Rescued "The Captain"

• One Fine Day

  Mollie Panter-Downes

• London

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