May 1930

Articles

• State Pensions or Charity?

  “It is time for us to devise ways of meeting the inevitable disaster of old age and the almost equally inevitable disasters of sickness and unemployment, and these must be ways that will not fail when the stock market breaks or a new machine is invented, that will function in the lean years as in the fat years, and that can be accepted without loss of self-respect.”

  Alice Hamilton

• The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

• Grandeur and Misery of Victory

  James Truslow Adams

• The Village Novel

  Ethel Wallace Hawkins

• Russia at Home

  Willis J. Abbot

• Men or Angels

  Charles Johnston

• The Atlantic Bookshelf: Conclusion

  A wrap up of book reviews from Edward Weeks

  Edward Weeks

• The Abandoned Orchard

  Eleanor Risley

• The Conservation of Investments

  George K. Putnam

• Just Think

  Susanne K. Langer

• The Cedars of Nonsuch

  William Beebe

• Pseudo-Realism

  Latta Griswold

• Groping in the Dark

  Kathryne Mary Frick

• Saving New England

  Walter Richard Eaton

• Science and the Money-Minded

  T. Swann Harding

• Legend

  Theodore Morrison

• Aunt Coffin's Art

  Frank Jewett Mather Jr.

• Death Song

  Eugenie Courtright

• The Citizenship of American Women

  John L. Cable

• Boccaccio and His 'Decameron'

  Joseph Wood Krutch

• The Road to Mandalay

  A. W. Smith

• Wondering: The Impressions of an Inmate

• Awkward Imperialists

  Reinhold Niebuhr

• The Preble Piano

  Samuel Scoville Jr.

• The Revolt of the Convicts

  George W. Alger

• The Village of Wide Bounty

  Anna Louise Strong

• A Tale of Two Cities

• Put Them in Their Place

• The Baby Squirrel

• The Chaldean Quarterly

• The Contributors' Column

  C. S. Thomas

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