November 1931

Articles

• Unemployment Reserves

  "Millions of wage-earning Americans would have been spared the humiliation of cooling their heels in charity offices, of begging in the streets, of marking time in bread lines, and, after all the torture and humiliation, of being for the most part starved, cold, and bare.

  Sidney Hillman

• The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

• Forty-Niners: The Chronicle of the California Trail

  Bernard Devoto

• American Scene

  R. M. Gay

• Soldiers And More

  Thomas H. Thomas

• The Epic of America

  Charles Seymour

• Untitled Book Review

  Anne Carroll Moore

• The Atlantic Bookshelf: Conclusion

  A wrap up of book reviews from Edward Weeks

  Edward Weeks

• The Atlantic's List of Readable Books

• A Word to Women

  Albert Jay Nock

• A Business Man Looks at Politics

  Herbert H. Lehman

• Satan Walks in the Garden

  Friedrich Ritter

• Bringing in the Sheaves--1931

  Caroline A. Henderson

• Arms and the Mind

  Leonard Ormerod

• Between Gentlemen

  A. W. Smith

• Walter Scott and the English Language

  Ernest Weekley

• The Harvest

  Derrick N. Lehmer

• Measuring the Divine Spark

  George W. Gray

• The Contributors' Column

  Charles K. Trueblood, J. D’A. Northwood, A. Mossman, Bertha Louise Soule, Frank T. Clampitt, Florence H. Dunlop, Caleb Cabot, Wendell C. Thorpe, and Percy W. Bidwell

• The Uses of Adversity

  Edgar J. Goodspeed

• His Children

  Josephine Johnson

• Remedies for the Third Degree

  Zechariah Chafee Jr.

• Two Insurgents

  Eugenie Courtright

• The Perils of Golf

  Bernard Darwin

• Puritan Fathers

  Norman Thomas

• A Plague of Birds

  Louise N. Trueblood

• What the Tariff Has Done to Us

  F. W. Taussig

• A More Excellent Way

  Henderson Daingerfield Norman

• The Leader

  David Mccord

• Bells

  Macgregor Jenkins

• Our Man-Made Depression

  A. Ludlow Kramer

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