October 1944
In This Issue
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Articles
In My Defense
Shocker Underground
Bee Tree
Talking Birds
Mother and Brat
The Pea Coat, or Jacket
Limitation
The Navigator: A War Play
Sonnet
The Peripatetic Reviewer
People on Our Side
Day of Deliverance
Trumpet Voluntary
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Rome Hanks
The World of Washington Irving
FOREWORD. — Against the background of an eager, adolescent nation, Van Wyek Brooks shows us the American authors of the early 1800’s, the statesmen they admired, the artists who painted them, the scientists, native or immigrant, who brought wonder to a society that was already outgrowing its provincialism. The world of Washington Irving was far wider than the thirteen colonies, and those who peopled it were, many of them, citizens of the world.
Latin America
The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington
European Front
Letter to the President
On the Beaches: The Pacific
On the Beaches: The Atlantic
School's Out
Frankenstein in England
A Forgotten Poet
A short story
On Rereading Gibbon
Infiltration Course
Death
Song for a Pilot
Convalescent
Mechanic
Seasonal
Mark Twain: Business Man: Letters and Memoirs
The Pacific War
The Catholics of Great Britain
Outward Bound
At the Harvard Commencement exercises on June 29 of this year, MAJOR GENERAL SHERMAN MILES,United States Army, spoke these words to 4200 Army and Navy students at the University: —
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