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February 1928 Issue - 39 Articles- The Tuberculosis Game
Maurice Fishberg
, pp. 129-137 - Lady Buyers
Frances Anne Allen
, pp. 138-144 - My Trip Abroad
Harry Lancaster
, pp. 145-158 - The Negro's Inhibitions
Eugene Gordon
, pp. 159-165 - Editorial, pp. 166-168
- The Heroes' Union
O.L. Warr
, pp. 169-177 - Americana, pp. 178-183
- The Mind of the General
E.L.M. Burns
, pp. 184-189 - The Walrus of Moron-Land
Louis Sherwin
, pp. 190-197 - The Length of Life of the Moderate Drinker
Raymond Pearl
, pp. 198-200 - The Kettle-Drums
Grace Overmyer
, pp. 201-203 - English a
Bernard DeVoto
, pp. 204-212 - Bridal Pond
Zona Gale
, pp. 213-216 - Crowded
Chester T. Crowell
, pp. 217-224 - The Fundamentalists' Case
Maynard Shipley
, pp. 225-229 - Wish You Was Here
Mildred Evans Gilman
, pp. 230-234 - Quarter-Deck Medicine
W.C. Murphy, Jr.
, pp. 235-239 - Ballad-Making
John McClure
, p. 240 - Clinical Notes
George Jean Nathan
, pp. 241-243 - The Theatre
George Jean Nathan
, pp. 244-250 The Library
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Three Americans (3 Reviews) H.L. Mencken
, pp. 251-252 Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters, Vol. II, by Ray Stannard Baker and Woodrow Wilson
- Woodrow Wilson: Life and Letters, Vol. II by Ray Stannard Baker and Woodrow Wilson
- D. L. Moody: A Worker in Souls by Gamaliel Bradford
- Calamity Jane and the Lady Wildcats by Duncan Aikman
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Inside Stuff (Review) H.L. Mencken
, p. 253 Money Writes!, by Upton Sinclair
- Money Writes! by Upton Sinclair
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The Third Degree (Review) H.L. Mencken
, p. 254 Literary Blasphemies, by Ernest Augustus Boyd
- Literary Blasphemies by Ernest Augustus Boyd
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Refinement Made Easy (Review) H.L. Mencken
, p. 255 Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage, by Emily Post
- Etiquette: The Blue Book of Social Usage by Emily Post
- The American Mercury Authors, pp. 256-282
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Public Affairs (12 Reviews) - Strenuous Italy by H. Nelson Gay
- The Changing South by William J. Robertson
- Urbanization by John Giffen Thompson
- Christianity and the Present Moral Unrest by A.D. Lindsay
- The New Germany by Ernest Jackh
- U.S.A. by Anna Lenah Elgstom and Gustaf Collijn
- The American Philosophy of Equality by T.V. Smith
- The New Colonial Policy by Helmer Key
- Karl Marx's Interpretation of History by M.M. Bober
- The Living Constitution by Howard Lee McBain
- New York Nights by Stephen Graham
- Opium by John Palmer Gavit
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History Father Mississippi, by Lyle Saxon (9 Reviews) - Father Mississippi by Lyle Saxon
- Tombstone by Walter Noble Burns
- Rasputin by Felix Youssoupoff
- Dickens Days in Boston by Edward F. Payne
- Ireland and the Foundations of Europe by Benedict Fitzpatrick
- The Life of Rome by H. Lionel Rogers and Theodore Rutherford Harley, ...
- The Capture of Old Vincennes by Milo M. Quaife, George Rogers Clark, and Governor Henry Hamilton, ...
- The Story of the American Indian by Paul Radin
- An Oxford Hall in Medieval Times by Alfred V. Embden
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Biography An Authentic Life of Billy the Kid, by Pat F. ... (10 Reviews) - An Authentic Life of Billy the Kid by Pat F. Garrett and Maurice G. Fulton
- George Washington, Colonial Traveller, 1732-1775 by John C. Fitzpatrick and George Washington
- Interpreters of Nature by George Newman
- Degas: An Intimate Portrait by Ambroise Vollard
- Sulla, the Fortunate, the Great Dictator by G.P. Baker
- The Road to the Temple by Susan Glaspell
- English Women in Life and Letters by Marion Phillips and W.S. Tomkinson
- The Last Salon by Jeanne Maurice Pouquet
- Old Stick-Leg by Thomas Austin and H.H. Austin
- Letters of Voltaire and Frederick the Great by Richard Aldington and Voltaire
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Criticism Sherwood Anderson, by Cleveland B. Chase (3 Reviews) - Sherwood Anderson by Cleveland B. Chase
- The Classical Tradition in Poetry by Gilbert Murray
- Charles M. Doughty by Barker Fairley
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Anthologies The Best British Short Stories of 1927, by Edw... (6 Reviews) - The Best British Short Stories of 1927 by Edward J. O'Brien
- More English Diaries by Arthur Ponsonby
- Scottish and Irish Diaries by Arthur Ponsonby
- The Best Short Stories of 1927 by Edward J. O'Brien
- The Book of the Inn by Thomas Burke
- Modern American Poetry by Conrad Aiken
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The Fine Arts The Golden Book, by Douglas C. McMurtrie (2 Reviews) - The Golden Book by Douglas C. McMurtrie
- The Heritage of Music by Hubert J. Foss
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Travel Flowers and Elephants, by Constance Sitwell (5 Reviews) - Flowers and Elephants by Constance Sitwell
- Oasis and Simoon by Ferdinand Ossendowski
- Cleared for Strange Ports by Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt and Mrs. Kermit Roosevelt, ...
- Pleasant Days in Spain by Nancy Cox McCormack
- Oriental Encounters by Marmaduke W. Pickthall
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Reprints The Poems and Letter of Andrew Marvell, by H.M... (4 Reviews) - The Poems and Letter of Andrew Marvell by H.M. Margoliouth and Andrew Marvell
- From "Gallegher" to "The Deserter" by Richard Harding Davis
- Our Hellenic Heritage by H.R. James
- The Marriage of Heaven and Hell by William Blake
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Folk-Lore Songs and Ballads of the Anthracite Miner, by ... (2 Reviews) - Songs and Ballads of the Anthracite Miner by George G. Korson
- Texas and Southwestern Lore by J. Frank Dobie
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The Sciences Manual of British Birds, by Howard Saunders (2 Reviews) - Manual of British Birds by Howard Saunders
- An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students by Ronald B. McKerrow
- Editorial Notes
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Text-Books The United States, by Theodore Calvin Pease (2 Reviews) - The United States by Theodore Calvin Pease
- Idealism as a Philosophy by R.F. Alfred Hoernle
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Fiction Strange Woman, by Elmer H. Davis (8 Reviews) - Strange Woman by Elmer H. Davis
- The Unpaid Piper by Woodward Boyd
- Samples by Lillie Ryttenberg and Beatrice Lang
- The Chronicles of Clovis by Saki
- Declaration of Love by Geoffrey Dennis
- The Silent Queen by W. Seymour Leslie
- Angel's Flight by Don Ryan
- Conflicts by Stefan Zweig
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Miscellaneous The Procession to Tyburn, by William McAdoo (5 Reviews) - The Procession to Tyburn by William McAdoo
- This Smoking World by Albert E. Hamilton
- Writing Advertising by James Davis Woolf
- Gemixte Pickles by K.M.S.
- The Revolutionary Spirit in France and America by Bernard Fay