November 1943

Articles

• Camp Follower: Job Hunt; The Uso Club

  Barbara Klaw

• Bottle Hunt in North Africa

  Henry L. Heyl

• Seismograph

  A. M. Sullivan

• The Smile on the Face of the Mare

  Walter Binger

• Awake, My Lute!

  C. S. Lewis

• "They Made Me What I Am Today"

  Newman Levy

• The New Scholarship

  Leonard Bacon

• Mark Twain and the Tiehenor Bonanza

  Lowry Charles Wimberly

• The Peripatetic Reviewer

  Edward Weeks

• American Heroes and Hero-Worship

  Gorham Munson

• Under a Lucky Star

  Thomas Barbour

• The American

• Sword of Bone

• But Gently Day

• Backdoor to Berlin

• What to Do With Italy

• The Night of the Summer Solstice

• Kathrine

• An American Diary

• Paris-Underground

• It Is Still the Morning

• None but the Lonely Heart

• The Devil and the Jews

• The Grand Design

• Yankee From Olympus: The Story of Justice Holmes

  FOREWORD. — The story of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes is the story of his country. The narrative cannot begin with the Hat date of his birth — 1841. This was a man whose presence carried tradition; over his shoulder one catches sight of his ancestors His roots reached deep into American earth; it was the strength of these roots that permitted so splendid a flowering.
  To know Judge Holmes at eighty — courtly, witty, scholarly, kind — it is well to have acquaintance with his Calvinist grandfather Abiel Holmes, with his handsome, worldly great-grandfather, Judge Wendell, with his mother from whom he inherited he said, “a trace of melancholy.”Above all, it is well to know his father, the sturdy Yankee who wrote bad verse and good books — professor of anatomy, talkative five-foot-three Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, who lived on applause and said so with engaging frankness, and who looked down his nose at his son’s choice of a profession.

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

• Latin America

• The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington

• Let's Face It

  Ralph E. Flanders

• European Front

• Airplanes for Peace

  Grover Loening

• Policing the Commentator: A News Analysis

  » How much freedom does your commentator have on the air? What do the network, the sponsor, and the FCC do to his opinions?

  Quincy Howe

• Wonderings

  John Masefield

• Authors and Aviators

  Edward Weeks

• The Road to Cape Bon

  Richard Llewellyn

• The Jackers

  Robert L. Roe

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

• Notes on Russian Literature

  In a series of penetrating studies, of which this is the first, Edmund Wilson introduces us to the beautiful intricacies of the Russian language, and to those Russian authors who are masters of their own tongue.

  Edmund Wilson

• Comment on a King

  Harold Nicolson

• "Will the Young Ladies Take Partners..."

  Gretchen Finletter

• Hawthorne

  Louis Coxe

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