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May 1940 Issue - 26 Articles-
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Check List (2 Reviews) , pp. 4-6 Non-Fiction
- Aretino, Scourge of Princes by Thomas Caldecot Chubb
- Public Opinion in a Democracy by Charles W. Smith, Jr.
- The Little Man in Henry Ford's Basement
John McCarten
, pp. 7-15 - Europe Faces Famine
Henry Albert Phillips
, pp. 16-23 - Freedom and the Colleges
Bertrand Russell
, pp. 24-33 - The Bonus Lobby Rides Again
Stanley High
, pp. 34-40 - If Russia Turns on China
Freda Utley
, pp. 41-48 - How to Write a Song Hit
Doron K. Antrim
, pp. 49-53 - Local Politics
Congressman Paul W. Shafer
, pp. 54-59 Menace to Defense
- A Year Without Death
Kenneth Brown Collings
, pp. 60-65 - Dr. Berg, Backstop
David Brown and Ernest Lehman
, pp. 66-71 - Lunacy Marches On, pp. 72-73
- Relief in Ohio
Clayton Fritchey
, pp. 74-81 - Revolution de Luxe. A story
Charles Yale Harrison
, pp. 82-85 - Aqua Pura in Old New York
Grace Adams and Edward Hutter
, pp. 86-91 - Where Living Costs Little
Larry Nixon
, pp. 92-99 - Daughter of the Confederacy
Craddock Goins
, pp. 100-103 - Americana, pp. 104-106
- Down To Earth
Alan Devoe
, pp. 107-110 Life of the Fox
Poetry
- I. Nor Dust Nor Moth
Dorothy M. Richardson
, p. 111 - II. Vernal Equinox
Robert Philip Hillier
, p. 111 - III. Answer
Glenn Ward Dresbach
, p. 112 The Library
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Negro Novel and White Reviewers (2 Reviews) Burton Rascoe
, pp. 113-116 Native Son, by Richard A. Wright
- Native Son by Richard A. Wright
- The Strange Lives of One Man by Ely Culbertson
The Check List
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Fiction (9 Reviews) , p. 117 - The Conversation by Conrad Aiken
- This Land Is Ours by Louis Zara
- Bethel Merriday by Sinclair Lewis
- Wild Geese Calling by Stewart Edward White
- Follow the Drinking Gourd by Frances O.J. Gaither
- Scattergood Baines Returns by Clarence Budington Kelland
- Mr. Skeffington by Elizabeth von Arnim
- The Twenty-Fifth Hour by Herbert Best
- 221 B: Studies in Sherlock Holmes~~Two Hundred Twenty-One B: Studies in Sherlock Holmes by Vincent Starrett
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Non-Fiction What Has Happened to Europe?, by Geoffrey T. G... (9 Reviews) , pp. 118-119 - What Has Happened to Europe? by Geoffrey T. Garratt
- Family Crisis by Sherlock Bronson Gass
- The Guillotine at Work by G.P. Maximoff
- Stalin: Czar of All the Russians by Eugene Lyons
- Stalin's Kampf by M.R. Werner and Joseph Stalin
- Three Portraits: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin by Emil Ludwig
- Twelve Against Alcohol by Herbert Ludwig Nossen
- The Story of Art by Regina Shoolman and Charles Slatkin
- Beyond the Clinical Frontiers by Edward A. Strecker
- Open Forum, pp. 120-125
- Contributors, pp. 126-130