Winter 1940

John Dewey’s “Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic Faith” Julian Huxley’s “The Origins of Species” John Calvin Metcalf’s “De Quincey’s Critical Years” Pablo M. Minelli’s “Are the Americas Ready?” Stories by John Dewey, Julian Huxley, John Calvin Metcalf, and Pablo M. Minelli
Winter 1940

Volume 16, Number 1

Virginia Quarterly Review, Winter 1940 cover

Table of contents

 
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De Quincey’s Critical Years

By John Calvin Metcalf
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Freedom Today and Tomorrow

By Josef Hanc
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Are the Americas Ready?

By Pablo M. Minelli
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America’s Gold and Silver Age

By James Orrick
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Royal Risidence

By Sean O'Casey
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A Primitive Religion

By Wayne Dennis
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India and the End of Empire

By Taraknath Das
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Four Ways of Criticism

By Albert Guerard
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Civil Liberties in the South

By Virginius Dabney
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Wordsworth’s Later Years

By Earl Leslie Griggs
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Historians and Mythmakers

By Matthew Josephson
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A Gallery of Politicians

By C. Vann Woodward
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The Sandburg Lincoln

By Charles A. Beard
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American Panorama

By James Southall Wilson
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Revolutions for What?

By Sigmund Neumann
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Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic Faith

By John Dewey
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A Small View of D.H. Lawrence

By Frieda Lawrence
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The Origins of Species

By Julian Huxley
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Men Without Violence

By Mary Keatinge

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