Spring 1940

Owen Lattimore’s “American Responsibilities in the Far East” Havelock Ellis’s “Letters to an American” Bruce Bliven’s “The Road to Hysteria: 1940” Vincent Sheean’s “At Loch Key” Stories by Owen Lattimore, Havelock Ellis, Bruce Bliven, and Vincent Sheean
Spring 1940

Volume 16, Number 2

Virginia Quarterly Review, Spring 1940 cover

Table of contents

Essays 
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Spring 1940

The Founding of The Virginia Quarterly Review

By James Southall Wilson
 
/ ISSUE: Spring 1940

Letters to an American

By Havelock Ellis
/ ISSUE: Spring 1940

Ingres Rediscovered

By Carl Zigrosser
/ ISSUE: Spring 1940

The Road to Hysteria: 1940

By Bruce Bliven
/ ISSUE: Spring 1940

Three Novels From Finland

By Agnes Rothery
/ ISSUE: Spring 1940

At Loch Key

By Vincent Sheean
/ ISSUE: Spring 1940

Through the Judicial Spectrum

By Leonard Boudin
/ ISSUE: Spring 1940

Old Conflicts in the New South

/ ISSUE: Spring 1940

Why the Confederacy Failed

By W. T. Couch
/ ISSUE: Spring 1940

Social Security Bogeymen

By Paul V. McNutt
/ ISSUE: Spring 1940

Mme Du Deffand and Walpole

By Fernand Baldensperger
/ ISSUE: Spring 1940

Cutting Democracy’s Budget

By Ernest K. Lindley
/ ISSUE: Spring 1940

The New Artificiality

By Theodore Maynard
/ ISSUE: Spring 1940

Delilah and Mr. Bircumshaw

By D. H. Lawrence
/ ISSUE: Spring 1940

Literature in Transition

By Charles T. Harrison
/ ISSUE: Spring 1940

Labor and Responsibility

By Philip Murray
/ ISSUE: Spring 1940

The Living and the Dying

By William Jay Gold
/ ISSUE: Spring 1940

Keep America Out of War

By Burton K. Wheeler
/ ISSUE: Spring 1940

A Portrait of De Quincey

By Archibald B. Shepperson
/ ISSUE: Spring 1940

Things Come Together: A Journey through Literary Lagos

By Frank Bures
/ ISSUE: Spring 1940

Two Dreams and a Nightmare

By Hamilton Basso
/ ISSUE: Spring 1940

American Responsibilities in the Far East

By Owen Lattimore
/ ISSUE: Spring 1940

The Problem of Big Business

By Virginius F. Coe

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