Spring 1930

• Clarence E. Cason’s “Alabama Goes Industrial” • Luc Durtain’s “Europe Sees America” • Howard Mumford Jones’s “Is There a Southern Renaissance?” • Robert Shafer’s “What Is Humanism?” • Stories by Clarence E. Cason, Luc Durtain, Howard Mumford Jones, and Robert Shafer • Poetry by Lawrence Lee, Frances M. Frost, and Wilbert Snow
Spring 1930

Volume 6, Number 2

Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1930 cover

Table of contents

Criticism 
CRITICISM / ISSUE: Spring 1930

The Dandridges and the Gants

By F. Stringfellow Barr
Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 1930

Noon in Barbour County

By Lawrence Lee
POETRY / ISSUE: Spring 1930

Earthward

By Frances M. Frost
 
/ ISSUE: Spring 1930

Six More Biographies

By Frederick P. Mayer
/ ISSUE: Spring 1930

Alabama Goes Industrial

By Clarence E. Cason
/ ISSUE: Spring 1930

A Plutarch for Virginia

By James Southall Wilson
/ ISSUE: Spring 1930

Europe Sees America

By Luc Durtain
/ ISSUE: Spring 1930

Facts and Foreign Affairs

By Graham Aldis
/ ISSUE: Spring 1930

Is There a Southern Renaissance?

By Howard Mumford Jones
/ ISSUE: Spring 1930

Big and Little Poetry

By Mark Van Doren
/ ISSUE: Spring 1930

What Is Humanism?

By Robert Shafer
/ ISSUE: Spring 1930

The Descent of the Theater

By Thomas H. Dickinson
/ ISSUE: Spring 1930

The Picnic

By Walter de la Mare
/ ISSUE: Spring 1930

The Dream of the Red Chamber

By Harry Clemons
/ ISSUE: Spring 1930

Hillside Trees

By Wilbert Snow
/ ISSUE: Spring 1930

Dime Dreadfuls

By Wilmot E. Ellis
/ ISSUE: Spring 1930

The End of Enver Pasha

By Louis Fischer
/ ISSUE: Spring 1930

Frank Norris in Retrospect

By Edward Wagenknecht
/ ISSUE: Spring 1930

Beefsteak When I’m Hungry

By Charles Morrow Wilson
/ ISSUE: Spring 1930

The Green-Room

/ ISSUE: Spring 1930

Stepfathers of Victorianism

By Lionel Stevenson
/ ISSUE: Spring 1930

Harvey, Maker of Presidents

By William E. Dodd

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