December 1917

Articles

• The Threatened Eclipse of Free Speech

  “When we start out to kill enemies abroad on a gigantic scale, we are not likely to hesitate to gag those at home who seem directly or indirectly to sympathize with the foe.”

  James Harvey Robinson

• The Tragedy of Roumania

  “The world criticized her for remaining neutral, and yet one wonders how many countries would have staked their national future as Roumania did when she entered the war.”

  Stanley Washburn

• The Contributors' Column--December Atlantic

• Tales of a Polygamous City: I. Taffeta Trousers

• The Road of Silence

  Margaret Baldwin

• A Family Letter

  Rudolf Heinrichs

• The Formula for Peace

  Courtenay De Kalb

• More Songs of Africa

  Jean Kenyon Mackenzie

• Professor's Progress. Iv: A Novel of Contemporaneous Adventure

• The Cabinet in Congress

  Francis E. Leupp

• ruggs--r.o.t.c

  William Addleman Ganoe

• Some Blank Misgivings

  George Boas

• The Last Post

  Nan Moulton

• The Mind and Mood of Germany to-Day

  A. D. Mclaren

• The Guest

  John Drinkwater

• The Great Expectancy

  Margaret Prescott Montague

• How to Destroy Pan-Germany

  André Chéradame

• Shock at the Front

  William Townsend Porter

• Torpedoed

  Albert Kinross

• The Junior Member in the Ancient House

• The Thirty-Seventh One

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