August 1943

Articles

• The Spirit of "Eight-Fifteen"

  Paul Brooks

• Hostess

  Phyllis Mcginley

• Admiral Fletcher's Barn

  Charles Spalding and Otis Carney

• Down Under

  John F. Purcell

• A Rare Roast of Beef

  Robert Fontaine

• Demosthenes to the Radio Announeer

  David Ross

• The Peripatetic Reviewer

  Edward Weeks

• We Cannot Escape History

• Katherine Christian

• The Wind That Swept Mexico

• Mother Russia

• Spearhead

• A Sense of Humus

• Out of Debt, Out of Danger

• Heaven Is a Sunswept Hill

• The Survival of Western Culture

• "Wildcats" Over Casablanca

• Our Daily Bread

• Starbuck

• History of Bigotry in the United States

• Trio

• The Other Americas

• Brothers Under the Skin

• Indigo: A Novel of India

  SYNOPSIS: A novel of life in an Indian garrison town, Amritpore, this story tells of the attraction and repulsion among the French, English, and natives who live in uneasy proximity. Representative of the ruling English are John Macbeth and his pretty cousin, Bertie Wood, old Mrs. Lyttleton, and various officials. Among the French residents, the widowed Madame de St. Remy despises the English. She is insanely jealous of Mrs. Lyttleton, whom she accuses of having alienated her husband from her and from his faith, and who has befriended Madame’s dark-haired son Jacques. Jacques has both English and native friends, particularly the young Hindu, Hardyal. Hardyal’s father, Ganpat Rai, is friendly toward the English, but the dour, suspicious Moslem, Abdul Salim, hates them. Salim’s seditious utterances have already roused official anger.

  Christine Weston

• Latin America

• The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington

• European Front

• Escape Through Germany

  Jean Hèlion

• Why Farmers Fear the Peace

  Arthur Moore

• The Story of an Island: Marooned by Request

  Robert Dean Frisbie

• The Making of Yesterday: The Diary of Raoul De Roussy De Sales

• Is Nation-Wide Bargaining Ahead?

  Almon E. Roth

• The Summer She's a Gypsy

  John Buxton

• Notes on Henry James

  Logan Pearsall Smith

• The Sword

  Roald Dahl

• Letters From Japan

• Private Papers

  William Justema

• Mrs. Willoughby on the Plains of Troy

  Mary Elizabeth Plummer

• The Pacific War

• Eye of the Hurricane

  Lucien Price

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