March 1946

Articles

• Cape Horn

  Ernest Kroll

• We Also Serve

  Simpson Sasserath

• Pacific Lament

  Charles Olson

• Wafflebutt

  John Ciardi

• The Cults of California

  Carey Mcwilliams

• Saint Patrick's Day Is Like Christmas Now

  John Sessions

• Is Mankind Cohesive?

  Caryl P. Haskins

• Delta Wedding

  SUMMARY. — Laura McRaven, nine, arrives at Shellmound, plantation home of her dead mother’s brother, Battle Fairchild, in the Mississippi Delta, during the late summer of 1923. The family consists of Battle and Ellen, their eight children ranging from Shelley, eighteen, to Bluet, two; the old aunts, Mac and Shannon; and dead brother Denis’s child, Maureen, not quite right in her head from injury in infancy. Two more sisters of Battle’s, the old maids Primrose and Jim Allen, live at a near-by plantation; Tempe Summers, his oldest sister, has come from Inverness with her grandchild, Lady Clare Buchanan,
  The family are preparing for the wedding of Dabney, seventeen, to Troy Flavin, the Shellmound overseer. George, Battle’s younger brother from Memphis, the adored one of the family, has just brought the news that his wife Robbie Reid (whom the family considers as “common” as Troy) has left him. Robbie, unknown to all but Shelley and Troy, who has advised her to go back to her husband, reaches the town of Fairchilds and comes out on foot through the fields to the door of Shellmound.

  Eudora Welty

• Before the Opening

  Russell Maloney

• On the Recorder

  Carl Anthon

• Summer Street

  Frances Higginson Savage

• Beans

  Crosby Gaige

• Lie Down, Rover

  Stanley E. Gwynn

• About Taxes: Three Americans Speak

  Catherine Drinker Bowen

• The First Military Airman

  Tom Mahoney

• The Persian Version

  Robert Graves

• Paris

• The Peripatetic Reviewer

  Edward Weeks

• The "Now It Can Be Told's"

  Richard E. Danielson

• Ciano's Diaries

  Gaetano Salvemini

• The Case Against the Nazi War Criminals

  Mark Dew. Howe

• Midwest at Noon

  Arthur Moore

• Two Plays of Menander

  John Finley

• Spin a Silver Dollar

  Oliver La Farge

• The Boy I Left Behind Me

  David Mccord

• Rome

• The Atlantic Report on the World Today: Washington

• The Far East

• Young Kansas Editor

  William Allen White

• Jobs and Freedom

  Harold E. Stassen

• Timetable for World Government

  » Thomas K. Finletter here defines the inescapable alternative which now confronts every thinking American: anarchy between nations, or law which will save us.

  Thomas K. Finletter

• A Hero for His Bed: Episodes From "The Scarlet Tree"

  Osbert Sitwell

• Sitter and Portrait

  Chauncey B. Tinker

• Russia and Her Neighbors in Europe

  Vera Micheles Dean

• My Hotels

  Hugo Johanson

• Europe

• A Letter to General Lee

  Branch Cabell

• Siegfried Among the Nightingales

  Siegfried Sassoon

• Dr. Johnson's Waterfall

  Helen Bevington

• Montaigne in America

  Theodore Spencer

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