119 years of the Atlantic / edited by Louise Desaulniers ; with an introd. by Robert Manning.

"An Atlantic Monthly Press book."

The autocrat of the breakfast table - Chesuncook - My double and how he undid me - Bardic symbols - Paul revere's ride - Battle hymn of the republic - Barbara Frietchie - Prospice- The place of abraham lincoln in history - Reconstruction - Mr. hardhack on the derivation of man from the monkey - Hawthorne in the boston custom house - The true story of lady byron's life - The english governess at the siamese court - Our whispering gallery - How santa claus came to simpson's bar - Marjorie daw - A rebel's recollections - Old times on the mississippi - An ode for the fourth of july - The american congress after its first century - A fight with a trout - Buying a horse - The examination system in education - Some personal recollections of carlyle - Tom's husband - An after breakfast talk - Wolfe on the plains of abraham - A story of assisted fate - Salem cupboards - Low tide on grand pre - Economy in college work - The new talking machines - The united states looking outward - The next stage in development of public parks - Agrippina - Of a dancing girl - The city on the housetops - Mars - Winter - Municipal administration - The end of hte war, and after - The battle with the slum - Tuppenny travels in london - Hunting big redwoods - Li wan, the fair - Lawn tennis - Remarks at the peace banquet - Shall the university become a business corporation - Man and the actor - The immiagrant woman - A record breaking balloon voyage - The meaning of the election - The change in the feminine ideal - Two looks - The summit of the years - To the watcher - Newspaper morals - A group of poems - War and the sexes - Individual liberty and public control - Ordinary seamen, U.S.N. - Squadrons of the air - Fiddlers' luck - The mystic's experience of god - Jazz, a musical discussion - The road away from revolution - You get the pig - Sing; a song of sixpence - Our dissolving ethics - Mercury - Universities and their function - Emily Dickinson - Atmosphere versus art - The new pilgrim's progress - The world's economic outlook - Confessions of a novelist - Nursery crimes - Off stage and on - Decay in the language - Planning in an economy of abundance - The aesthetics of eating - The blow that hurts - The winner loses - Cliches on the air - From a flying tiger - Mademoiselle o - Wartime journey - Writers in hollywood - What's wrong with the family - In country sleep - Death of a pig - Who will do the dirty work - Peggety's parcel of stortcomings - The parents at country day - My horse buck - Detective of time - From us to you - Banjo boomer - How mr. hogan robbed a bank - Two tales of darkness - How big is one - The porcupines in the artichokes - The cost of secrecy - The nature of the artist - Canadian spring - The negro is your brother - U.S.A. revisited - Hemingway in cuba - White collar pill party - The day the computers got waldon ashenfelter - How could vietnam happen - Looking for the buckhead boys - Reviewmanship and the i-wrote-a-book disease - Warning: the chain saw cometh - Loneliness - The dublin social scene - Int'l jet set hits watkings glen - Augustine's concubine - Breed