July 1940

Articles

• Hemisphere Defense

  Louis Johnson

• Music in Shirt Sleeves

  Lucien Price

• We, the Living

  Essayists are invited to compete for membership in the Contributors’ Club, and a prize of $250 is offered each month for the most distinguished essay of a thousand words. The prize for July has been awarded to Mrs. Helen Everitt, of Ipswich, Massachusetts.

  Helen Everitt

• The Œdipus Complex

  V. S. Pritchett

• To the Indies

  C. S. Forester

• Paying for Armaments

  Sumner H. Slichter

• Supercolossal: The Movies

  Morris Ernst

• Phillips Brooks

  Margaret Deland

• A Balance Sheet for Americans

  John W. Owens

• Strip-Tease

  George Weller

• Trojan Horse: 1940 Model

  Ferdinand Tuohy

• Public Journal

  Phyllis Mcginley

• The Other Side of the Hill

  John Buchan

• Absence

  Colette

• Obsolete Liner

  Robert Hillyer

• Vermont Summer

  Edward Weismiller

• Should Tigers Have Wings?

  George De Altovitti

• Revolution in the Supreme Court

  Kenneth Culp Davis

• Saki

  Elizabeth Drew

• God in the Public Schools

  Henry W. Holmes

• Night in Bombay

• The Confessions of an Individualist

• My Ten Years in the Studios

• The Arkansas

• Before Lunch

• Enchanted Wanderer

• How to Read a Book

• Preface to World Literature

• Polish Profile

• The Present Age--From 1914

• As Long as the Grass Shall Grow

• The Long Watch in England

• I Married Adventure

• Correction

• The Contributors' Column

• If You Don't Weaken

• Stars on the Sea

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