October 1935

Articles

• The Genesis of Boston

  "By 1700 Boston was, next to London, the chief literary centre of the British Empire."

  S. Foster Damon

• Front Cover

• A Bird in a Gilded Cage

  Marian Vaillant

• Mary Queen of Scotland and the Isles

  Carl Van Doren

• Children’s Books of 1935

  Anne Carroll Moore

• The Valley

  R. M. Gay

• The Atlantic Bookshelf: Conclusion

  A wrap up of book reviews from Edward Weeks

  Edward Weeks

• The Contributors' Column

  Abraham Flexner, M. E. P., H. F. Keep, Anna B. Whiting, Oliver M. Keve, R. A. B., J. L. B., Henry T. Chambers, James N. Hall, Purd B. Wright, and Dickey L. Mitchell Jr.

• Worse Than Arnold

  Burton J. Hendrick

• I Was Fired From a Hick College

  Wendell Brooks Phillips

• The Negro in the Well

  Erskine Caldwell

• Can Government Spending Cure Unemployment? There Is One Way Out

  Lewis W. Douglas

• Novelist and Politician

  Leon Trotsky

• Marcel Proust

  Havelock Ellis

• 'Death Rides From the Sunset'

  Sara Henderson Hay

• My Great, Wide, Beautiful World

  Juanita Harrison

• Salar the Salmon: Ii. Spring Spate

  Henry Williamson

• Rome and Tobago

  Esme Howard

• The Meaning of Literary Prizes

  Edward Weeks

• Ethiopia

  Robert Nathan

• Wisdom

  Paul Hoffman

• Freedom of the Press

  Herbert Brucker

• The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to New Books About Business

• Raspberry-Down-the-Cellar

  Maxine Finsterwald

• The Road to Peace

  John Foster Dulles

• America Faces the Barricades

  George F. Sokolsky

• The Gussies

• Flight From Reality

• The Atlantic Industrial Portfolio

• Modernizing the Building Industry: Johns-Manville Thinks Its Way Through the Tangle of Construction

  Arthur Pound

• The Security Markets

  Edward Stone

• Monetary Policy and Economic Stabilizatio

  Howard Douglas Dozier

• Common Stocks and Common Stockholders

  Howard Douglas Dozier

• The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

• Black Tents of Arabia

  Carleton S. Coon

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