August 1940

Articles

• Where Do You Stand?

  An open letter to American undergraduates

  Arnold Whitridge

• Isolated America

• Empress of the Dusk

• Saints and Sinners

• The Spiritual Aspects of the New Poetry

• Last Poems and Plays

• The Pinpoint Planetarium

• The Quest for Peace Since the World War

• Margaret Fuller: Whetstone of Genius

• The Underground Stream

• A Lion in the Garden

• Ask Me Tomorrow

• The Art of Satire

• An Army Without Arms

  T. H. Thomas

• The Atlantic Monthly

• The Beaches of Dunkirk

• Poems

  Walter De La Mare

• America to England

  David L. Cohn

• Can Europe Feed Herself?

  John D. Black

• The Country Bug

  Albert Jay Nock

• Children of the Island

  Marya Zaturenska

• The Enduring

  John Holmes

• Germany's Military Success

  Oswald Garrison Villard

• Trelawny

  Margaret Armstrong

• We Tried to Enforce Peace

  A. Lawrence Lowell

• Banjo in the Cow Camps

  ’Jack’ Thorp

• Molière

  Frederic Prokosch

• Discarding From Weakness

  Robert S. Binkerd

• Cornelius McGillicuddy

  John R. Tunis

• Back to Poetry

  Conrad Aiken

• Hook

  Walter Van Tilburg Clark

• Business Without Precedents

  Arthur A. Ballantine

• The Power of Ice

  Essayists are invited to compete for membership in the Club, and a prize of $250 is offered each month for the most distinguished essay of a thousand words. The prize for August has been awarded to Charles D. Stewart, of Hartford, Wisconsin, a valued contributor to the Atlantic for almost forty years.

  Charles D. Stewart

• A Garden of Butterflies: (Government House, Sutton Forest)

  Ethel Anderson

• Hog Wild

  Margaret Tinley

• To the Indies

  C. S. Forester

• The Contributors' Column

• Paris France

• Why Europe Fights

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