December 7, 1927 Issue, THE NATION

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- Editorial Paragraphs, pp. 615-617
- Peace or War?, p. 618
- The Negligible Graduate Student , p. 619
- The Norton Centenary , p. 619
- To Err Is Human , p. 620
- Loot
  Hendrik van Loon
  , p. 621
- It Seems To Heywood Broun
  Heywood Broun
  , p. 622
- War In Colorado
  Frank L. Palmer
  , pp. 623-624
- A Sacco Revolver Expert Revealed
  Arthur Warner
  , p. 625
- What Business Wants from Congress
  Laurence Todd
  , pp. 626-627
- American We Like: Florence E. Allen
  Emily Newell Blair
  , p. 628
- In the Driftway
  The Drifter
  , p. 629
- Correspondence, pp. 630-635
- What Is Happening in China's Kuomintang
  Roy Cort
  , pp. 636-638
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  Walter Lippmann, Connoisseur of Public Life (Review)
  Benjamin Stolberg
  , pp. 639-641
  Men of Destiny, by Walter Lippmann
  1. Men of Destiny by Walter Lippmann
- On Contemporary American Fiction
  Clifton P. Fadiman
  , p. 642
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  Plastic and Temporal In Art (Review)
  Joseph Wood Krutch
  , pp. 643-644
  Time and Western Man, by Wyndham Lewis
  1. Time and Western Man by Wyndham Lewis
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  A Hero of the Jews (Review)
  Norman Hapgood
  , p. 645
  Theodor Herzl: A Biographical Study, by Jacob de Haas
  1. Theodor Herzl: A Biographical Study by Jacob de Haas
- Second Advent
  John Gould Fletcher
  , p. 646
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  First Glance (2 Reviews)
  Mark Van Doren
  , pp. 646-647
  The American Songbag, by Carl Sandburg
  1. The American Songbag by Carl Sandburg
  2. Weep Some More, My Lady by Sigmund Gottfried Spaeth
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  Actor-Preacher (Review)
  W.E. Woodward
  , p. 648
  Henry Ward Beecher: An American Portrait, by Paxton Hibben
  1. Henry Ward Beecher: An American Portrait by Paxton Hibben
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  A Distinguished Editor (Review)
  J.A. Hobson
  , pp. 648-649
  Life, Journalism and Politics, by John A. Spender
  1. Life, Journalism and Politics by John A. Spender
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  Thoreau (3 Reviews)
  R.F. Dibble
  , pp. 650-651
  Henry Thoreau: The Cosmic Yankee, by J. Brooks Atkinson
  1. Henry Thoreau: The Cosmic Yankee by J. Brooks Atkinson
  2. Moon by Henry David Thoreau
  3. The Heart of Thoreau's Journals by Odell Shepard and Henry David Thoreau
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  By Their Fruits (Review)
  John Haynes Holmes
  , p. 652
  My Eighty Years, by Charles F. Dole
  1. My Eighty Years by Charles F. Dole
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  The Case of Floyd Dell and Others (Review)
  Alter Brody
  , pp. 652-653
  An Unmarried Father, by Floyd Dell
  1. An Unmarried Father by Floyd Dell
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  The Father of Footnotes (Review)
  Keith Hutchinson
  , pp. 654-655
  The Greville Diary, by Philip Whitwell Wilson and Charles Greville
  1. The Greville Diary by Philip Whitwell Wilson and Charles Greville
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  "Our Times" (2 Reviews)
  Luther E. Robinson
  , p. 656
  Our Times: The Turn of the Century, 1900-1904, by Mark Sullivan
  1. Our Times: The Turn of the Century, 1900-1904 by Mark Sullivan
  2. Our Times: America Finding Herself by Mark Sullivan
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  The Primitive State (Review)
  Harold J. Laski
  , pp. 656-657
  The Origin of the State, by Robert H. Lowie
  1. The Origin of the State by Robert H. Lowie
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  Liberalism and Literature (Review)
  Lewis Galantiere
  , pp. 658-659
  Cities and Men, by Ludwig Lewisohn
  1. Cities and Men by Ludwig Lewisohn
- Sudermann
  Henry Brennecke
  , p. 660
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  One Side of Heine (Review)
  Norah Meade
  , p. 661
  That Man Heine, by Lewis Browne and Elsa Weihl
  1. That Man Heine by Lewis Browne and Elsa Weihl
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  The Primitive Thinker (Review)
  Joseph Jastrow
  , p. 662
  Primitive Man as Philosopher, by Paul Radin
  1. Primitive Man as Philosopher by Paul Radin
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  Renaissance and Reformation (Review)
  Bartlet Brebner
  , p. 662
  The Social and Political Ideas of Some Great Thinkers of the Renaissance and the Reform...
  1. The Social and Political Ideas of Some Great Thinkers of the Renaissance and the Reformation by F.J.C. Hearnshaw
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  Books in Brief (13 Reviews) , p. 663
  The Unbearable Bassington, by Saki
  1. The Unbearable Bassington by Saki
  2. The Chronicles of Clovis by Saki
  3. The Bullfighters by Henry de Montherlant
  4. Moor Fires by E.H. Young
  5. The Exile by Mary Johnston
  6. The Dream of a Woman by Remy de Gourmont
  7. On the Steppes by James N. Rosenberg
  8. Why Rome Fell by Edward Lucas White
  9. The Playgoer's Handbook to the English Renaissance Drama by Agnes Mure Mackenzie
  10. The Architect in History by Martin S. Briggs
  11. Italian Primitives at Yale University by Richard Offner
  12. Shakespeare and "Demi-Science" by Felix E. Schelling
  13. Selected Papers of Bertrand Russell by Bertrand Russell
- Music: Korngold's "Violanta"
  Lawrence Adler
  , pp. 664-665
- Drama: The Genius of Reinhardt
  Joseph Wood Krutch
  , p. 666