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October 1936 Issue - 32 Articles- The Case for Dr. Landon
H.L. Mencken
, pp. 129-134 - Sex Problems of Modern Parents
Havelock Ellis
, pp. 135-141 - Not the Victor, Now
V. James Chrasta
, p. 142 - How to Be a Bureaucrat
Anonymous
, pp. 143-148 - Fame and the Poet. A story
Thomas Wolfe
, pp. 149-153 - Cycle
Frances Frost
, p. 154 - No Parking
Fletcher Pratt
, pp. 155-160 - Why You Fear the Dentist
Bissell B. Palmer
, pp. 161-164 - The Well
Raymond Holden
, p. 165 - Women of Suburbia
Ruth Purdy
, pp. 166-167 - The Comedy of Repeal
Anthony M. Turano
, pp. 168-173 - The Movie Hero. A Story
Joel Sayre
, pp. 174-185 - The Newspaper Guild
C.C. Nicolet
, pp. 186-192 - The Lumberjacks Go Sissy
Stewart H. Holbrook
, pp. 193-198 - If the South Had Won the War
Virginius Dabney
, pp. 199-205 - Is Roosevelt a Socialist?
Harold Lord Varney
, pp. 206-220 - Editorial, pp. 221-224
- Americana, pp. 225-228
- Victory By Retreat
Albert Jay Nock
, pp. 229-234 - Loose Ladies of New Orleans
Herbert Asbury
, pp. 235-243 The Library
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Diseases of the Great (Review) John W. Thomason, Jr.
, pp. 244-247 - Idols and Invalids by James Kemble
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Young Men See Visions The Living Jefferson, by James Truslow Adams (3 Reviews) William Allen White
, pp. 248-251 - The Living Jefferson by James Truslow Adams
- William Jennings Bryan by Wayne C. Williams
- John Reed: The Making of a Revolutionary by Granville Hicks and John Stuart
The Check List
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Biography (6 Reviews) , p. 252 - Preface to the Past by James Branch Cabell
- From a Surgeon's Journal, 1915-1918 by Harvey Cushing
- An American Doctor's Odyssey by Victor G. Heiser
- Hitler: The Pawn by Rudolf Olden
- Hitler: A Biography by Konrad Heiden
- Robespierre by Gustaaf J. Renier
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Fiction People Are Fascinating, by Sally Benson (8 Reviews) , p. 252 - People Are Fascinating by Sally Benson
- South Riding by Winifred Holtby
- Sanfelice by Vincent Sheean
- Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
- Head o' W-Hollow by Jesse Stuart
- Here Lies a Most Beautiful Lady by Richard Blaker
- Gunnar's Daughter by Sigrid Undset
- The Old Man's Coming by Gosta Gustaf-Janson
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Poetry Modern American Poetry, by Louis Untermeyer (11 Reviews) , p. 253 - Modern American Poetry by Louis Untermeyer
- The People, Yes by Carl Sandburg
- Landscape with Figures by Lionel Wiggam
- Collected Poems, 1909-1935 by T.S. Eliot
- The Mediterranean and Other Poems by Allen Tate
- The Poetical Works of Robert Bridges by Robert Bridges
- The Alcestis of Euripides by Dudley Fitts, Robert Fitzgerald, and Euripides
- The Iron Land by Stanley Burnshaw
- Thanksgiving Before November by Norman Macleod
- Burning City by Stephen Vincent Benet
- A Letter from Pontus by John Masefield
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History Maritime Neutrality to 1780, by Carl J. Kulsrud (4 Reviews) , p. 254 - Maritime Neutrality to 1780 by Carl J. Kulsrud
- Revolutionary New Hampshire by Richard Francis Upton
- Express and Stagecoach Days in California by Oscar Osburn Winther
- The Middle Classes, Then and Now by Franklin C. Palm
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Public Affairs Theme Song--1936, by Richard Barry (3 Reviews) , p. 254 - Theme Song--1936 by Richard Barry
- Whose Constitution? by Henry A. Wallace
- Can We Be Neutral? by Allen W. Dulles and Hamilton Fish Armstrong
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Science Green Laurels, by Donald Culross Peattie (Review) , p. 254 - Green Laurels by Donald Culross Peattie
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Miscellaneous The Complete Works of Horace, by Casper J. Kra... (14 Reviews) , p. 255 - The Complete Works of Horace by Casper J. Kraemer and Horace
- The Best Short Stories, 1936 by Edward J. O'Brien
- My Ten Years in a Quandary, and How They Grew by Robert C. Benchley
- An Introduction to Country Life by Alfred S. Campbell
- Paris, 1870-1935 by Jules Bertaut
- The Pilots' Book of Everest by Douglas Douglas-Hamilton Clydesdale and David Fowler McIntyre, ...
- Satan Came to Eden by Dora Strauch and Walter Brockmann
- The Eskimos by Kaj Birket-Smith
- A Place in the Country by Dwight T. Farnham
- The Story of Prophecy by Henry James Forman
- Uncommon Knowledge by George W. Stimpson
- The Medieval Heritage of Elizabethan Tragedy by Willard Farnham
- Sentence, Paragraph, Theme by John B. Opdycke
- A Handbook to Literature by W.F. Thrall and Addison Hibbard
- The Contributors, p. 256
- Recorded Music
Irving Kolodin
- The Open Forum