Autumn 1939

Eliot Janeway’s “Monopolies: Order or Chaos” Ernest Tener Weir’s “Industry and American Democracy” Charles A. Beard’s “The Idea of Let Us Alone” Genevieve Tabouis’s “Will France Abandon Democracy?” Stories by Eliot Janeway, Ernest Tener Weir, Charles A. Beard, and Genevieve Tabouis Poetry by A. E. Housman
Autumn 1939

Volume 15, Number 4

Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1939 cover

Table of contents

Criticism 
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Autumn 1939

The Defeated

By A. E. Housman
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America on the Way

By C. Vann Woodward
 
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Ways of Looking Back

By Robert Francis
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The Dutch Will Fight

By Lilo Linke
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A Philologist Looks At “Finnegans Wake”

By Archibald A. Hill
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A New Deal in Reconstruction

By Claude Pepper
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The Contributors

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The Burning Corn

By Ralph Bates
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A Briefer Comment

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Freud Examines Monotheism

By Stephen S. Wise
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Monopolies: Order or Chaos

By Eliot Janeway
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Careers at Crossroads

By Wilbur L. Schramm
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Industry and American Democracy

By Ernest Tener Weir
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The Idea of Let Us Alone

By Charles A. Beard
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Will France Abandon Democracy?

By Genevieve Tabouis
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Labor Looks South

By John L. Lewis
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Asia: Words and Soldiers

By Philip J. Jaffe
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The Position of Ingres in the Modern World

By Walter Pach
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The Emerson Letters

By Granville Hicks
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Selections From Ingres

By Ingre Ingres

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