Autumn 1931

Francis Pitcairn’s “News of America” Charles A. Beard’s “Captains Uncourageous” Archibald Rutledge’s “Beasts Called Wild” D. S. Mirsky’s “The Soviet Films” Stories by Francis Pitcairn, Charles A. Beard, Archibald Rutledge, and D. S. Mirsky Poetry by Lizette Woodworth Reese, Virginia Moore, Liddell Robert Lowe, and Aline Kilmer
Autumn 1931

Volume 7, Number 4

Virginia Quarterly Review, Autumn 1931 cover

Table of contents

Essays 
ESSAYS / ISSUE: Autumn 1931

Before Aesred

By James Branch Cabell
Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Autumn 1931

Beloved, Practice Patience

By Robert Liddell Lowe
 
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Beasts Called Wild

By Archibald Rutledge
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How the War Came

By Charles Seymour
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The Soviet Films

By D. S. Mirsky
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High Command

By Dexter Perkins
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Straws in the German Winds

By Ernestine Evans
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Early American

By Edward Wagenknecht
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The Widower

By Lizette Woodworth Reese
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The Reviewer

By Lambert Davis
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White Birches in Autumn

By Lizette Woodworth Reese
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The Lincoln Myth

By Andrew Nelson Lytle
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Statement in November

By Virginia Moore
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A Splendid Little War

By Dumas Malone
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Woodcut

By Aline Kilmer
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National Traits

By Bernadotte E. Schmitt
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A Plantation Retrospect

By William Cabell Bruce
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Le Malade Imaginaire

By Carroll Mason Sparrow
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How Firm a Foundation

By Harold Taylor
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The Green-Room

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News of America

By Francis Pitcairn
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Shadows on the Rock

By James Southall Wilson
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Captains Uncourageous

By Charles A. Beard
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Ideas or Ideals?

By Frederick P. Mayer

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