October 1916

Articles

• The Devil Baby at Hull House

  A tale of poverty, superstition, and the struggles of ordinary women.

  Jane Addams

• With the Iron Division at Verdun

  “We have fought bravely; we have done our duty; but our sacrifice is going to be in vain. We are lost. We are all going to be killed here.”

  Louis Octave Philippe

• The Achievements of the Democratic Party and Its Leader Since March 4, 1913

  Charles W. Eliot

• Our Relations With Great Britain

  Arthur Bullard

• The Gregariousness of the Minor Poets

  Samuel McChord Crothers

• On Being Ill

  Henry Dwight Sedgwick

• Out of Flanders

  James Norman Hall

• A Joy Ride

  Ellen N. La Motte

• Sentimentalist, Satirist, and Realist: Notes on Some Recent Fiction

  Wilson Follett

• James Whitcomb Riley

  Meredith Nicholson

• The Contributors' Column--October Atlantic

• The Criers of the Musical Shop

  Sherlock Bronson Gass

• Autumn

  Bliss Carman

• Uplift

  Charlotte Fitzhugh Morris

• Hometown Revisited

  Seymour Deming

• The Laboratory Reacts

• Behind the Yser

  Maud Mortimer

• From Salonica

  Albert Kinross

• The Lier in Bed

• Church Work

• Literature and the Sky-Sign

• Some Reasons for Being Rejected

• A Word to the New Woman

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