Summer 1933

William Martin’s “China Waits” Thomas Jeffries Betts’s “Our Stake in the Orient” Stark Young’s “The Room Where My Uncle Died” R. L. Duffus’s “The Prime of Life” Stories by William Martin, Thomas Jeffries Betts, Stark Young, and R. L. Duffus Poetry by Robert P. Tristram Coffin, Robert Francis, Geoffrey Johnson, and Amelie Rives Troubetzkoy
Summer 1933

Volume 9, Number 3

Virginia Quarterly Review, Summer 1933 cover

Table of contents

Poetry 
POETRY / ISSUE: Summer 1933

Nostalgia

By Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy
 
/ ISSUE: Summer 1933

Magic Casements

By Emily Clark Balch
/ ISSUE: Summer 1933

Potato Diggers

/ ISSUE: Summer 1933

The Prophet of Modern Chaos

By Kent Roberts Greenfield
/ ISSUE: Summer 1933

Three Pastorals in White

By Robert Francis
/ ISSUE: Summer 1933

Arnold and Clough

By John W. Dodds
/ ISSUE: Summer 1933

On a Sun-Dial

By Geoffrey Johnson
/ ISSUE: Summer 1933

Ballads, Folk-Songs, Spirituals

By Arthur Kyle Davis, Jr.
/ ISSUE: Summer 1933

A Dark Star

By Kenneth Grahame
/ ISSUE: Summer 1933

What Is Property?

By Helen Hill
/ ISSUE: Summer 1933

The Frog and the Nightingale

By Margaret Waller Freeman
/ ISSUE: Summer 1933

Sectionalism and Nationalism

By Edd Winfield Parks
/ ISSUE: Summer 1933

Madame De Warens

By Havelock Ellis
/ ISSUE: Summer 1933

Brown, Jones, and Robinson

By Carroll Mason Sparrow
/ ISSUE: Summer 1933

China Waits

By William Martin
/ ISSUE: Summer 1933

Enter a Novelist

By James Southall Wilson
/ ISSUE: Summer 1933

The Western Odyssey

By Scott Buchanan
/ ISSUE: Summer 1933

Our Stake in the Orient

/ ISSUE: Summer 1933

Virginia and England

By Lizette Woodworth Reese
/ ISSUE: Summer 1933

The Green-Room

/ ISSUE: Summer 1933

The Room Where My Uncle Died

By Stark Young
/ ISSUE: Summer 1933

Portrait of Sidney Lanier

By George Herbert Clarke
/ ISSUE: Summer 1933

The Prime of Life

By R. L. Duffus
/ ISSUE: Summer 1933

Partizan Leaders

By Thomas Perkins Abernethy
/ ISSUE: Summer 1933

White House Technique

By Frank R. Kent

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