Essay

• James Truslow Adams — The Dilemma of Edmund Ruffin
• Silas Bent — A Mirror for Editors
• Robert C. Binkley — The Twentieth Century Looks at Human Nature
• John Cournos — The Whistler Stamp
• Richard Curle — Joseph Conrad: Ten Years After
• Broadus Mitchell — Hamilton and Jefferson Today
• Talbot Wegg — Preface to City Planning

Fiction

• Katherine Anne Porter — That Tree

Poetry

• Conrad Aiken — Prelude
• Robert P. Tristram Coffin — Memorial Day
• Daniel Whitehead Hicky — Ad Interim

Book Reviews

• Thomas P. Abernethy — Rebels of 'Seventy-Six
• Thomas Jeffries Betts — Changing Attitudes on the Orient
• Scott Buchanan — Mumford Tilts at Windmills
• John A. Holmes — Two Poets in England
• Cary Johnson, Jr. — Patrician and Patriot
• Walter L. Myers — Life, Literature, and Books
• Phillips Russell — More Johnson Than Franklin
• Edward Wagenknecht — The Dickens Pot Boils
• Dixon Wecter — The Two Great Chams
• James Southall Wilson — The Faculty of Poets