Autumn 1928

• Dumas Malone’s “A Challenge to Patriots” • John Hyde Preston’s “Aesthetics and Religion” • Gerald W. Johnson’s “Southern Image-Breakers” • Clemence Dane’s “The Devil to Dinner” • Poetry by Carl Sandburg, Babette Deutsch, Robert Frost, and George Herbert Clarke
Autumn 1928

Volume 4, Number 4

Table of contents

Essays 
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Autumn 1928

Three Friends of Jefferson

By Marie Kimball
Criticism 
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Autumn 1928

Italy - 1928 Model

By F. Stringfellow Barr
Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 1928

Acquainted With the Night

By Robert Frost
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 1928

Moon-Path

By Carl Sandburg
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 1928

Landscape

By Carl Sandburg
 
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1928

What Price Parnassus

By Howard Mumford Jones
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1928

The English Singers

By Babette Deutsch
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1928

The Law and the Facts

By Arthur Ruhl
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1928

Song

By George Herbert Clarke
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1928

Honesty and a Book Review

By Frederick P. Mayer
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1928

Concerning a Butterfly

By Anne Blackwell Payne
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1928

Biography Pure and Applied

By John Calvin Metcalf
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1928

I Must Be Silent

By Anne Blackwell Payne
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1928

Campaign Literature

By Virginius Dabney
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1928

No Harvest

By Robert Liddell Lowe
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1928

Black Valley and the Tree of Life

By James C. Bardin
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1928

“By Such Small Things”

By Robert Liddell Lowe
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1928

Of the Making of Books

By Harry Clemons
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1928

A Challenge to Patriots

By Dumas Malone
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1928

Autumnal

By R. P. Harriss
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1928

A Volume Against the Pragmatists

By James Hart
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1928

Aesthetics and Religion

By John Hyde Preston
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1928

The Mixed Courts of Egypt

By Pierre Crabités
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1928

Others Call It God

By Carroll Mason Sparrow
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1928

Southern Image-Breakers

By Gerald W. Johnson
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1928

Sursum

By Elizabeth Eldridge
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1928

The Green-Room

/ ISSUE: Autumn 1928

The Devil to Dinner

By Clemence Dane
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1928

The Drama: Can It Be Taught

By Langdon Mitchell
/ ISSUE: Autumn 1928

The City of the Ivory Tower

By Fredericka V. Blankner

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