The Nation, complete year 1919, Vol. CVIII no. 2792 - Vol. CIX no. 2843, Jan. 4 - Dec . 27, 1919
New York: The Nation Press, 1919. 49 issues, comprising the complete year. Some issues were published in 2 or 3 parts, and we often have the extra parts, but not always. Generally very good with light soil and wear, dustiness to edges, small occasional stains. Very uncommon run of this famous journal, which under the editorship of Villard became associated with left-leaning causes, modernism, multi-cultural voices, and liberalism, with a surprising number of Jewish authors. Highlights include: Jan. 4 "The Constitution of Russia, a Translation of the Official Text," Jan. 11 "The Sinn Fein Victory" by Padraic Colum, Jan. 25 "Poland and the Jewish Problem," Feb. 8 "General Smut's Plan for the League of Nations" [the sole authorized American printing of Smuts' plan], Feb. 22 "Socialist Labor Organization in Italy," March 15 "The Making of a Red" by Robert C. Benchley, March 22 "Russia" by Witter Bynner, April 5 "The Plight of Czechoslovakia" by Henry G. Alsberg [he was a frequent contributor and later was the head of the Federal Writers' Project]; April 12 "Revolutionary Germany" by Villard, April 26 "The Need for a Jewish Homeland" by Jacob H. Schiff, May 24 "Recent Irish Poetry" by Colum, May 31 "Walt Whitman a Centenary View" by Percy Boynton, June 7 "Ireland's Right to Independence" by Eammonn de Valera, June 14 "The Independent Labor Party of Great Britain" by J. Ramsay Macdonald, June 21 "Child Massacre as a Political Weapon" by Norman Angell, July 12 "The Latest Allied-American Dealing with Russia," July 19, "Abraham Jacobi, a Tribute" by Villard, "The Plot Against Mexico" by de Bekker in 3 parts, August 16 "A Railroad Symposium," August 23 "On Studying Biography" by Carl van Doren, August 30 "Hey Rub-a-Dub-Dub" by Theodore Dreiser (2 x 1" chip to cover page), Sept. 6 "After-War Education" by Anatole France, Sept. 20 entire issue devoted to Shantung [the peace treaty included a controversial passage granting China full rights over the Shandong peninsula; it was resolved in China's favor in 1922], Sept. 27 "A Republic!" by Edgar Lee Masters, Oct. 4 "Russia -- Reports of William C. Bullitt and Lincoln Steffens," Oct. 25 "The Death of Autumn" by Edna St. Vincent Millay, Nov. 1 "Bulgaria Faces the Future" by Alsberg, "Afternoon Mood" by Maxwell Bodenheim, Nov. 8 "Great Britain's Political Chaos" by Ramsay Macdonald, Nov. 15 "Civil Liberty in the Steel Strike" by Mary Heaton Vorse, Nov. 22 "Behind the Miners' Strike" by Sylvia Kopald, Nov. 29 "The Prussianization of Ireland, with map showing results of the general election," Dec. 6 "Massacring Whites in Arkansas" by Walter F. White [future head of the NAACP], Dec. 13 "A Newspaper Confiscated -- And Returned" by Anna Louise Strong...and many other articles, reviews, poems, editorials, etc., on culture, the arts, politics, world cultures, etc. Very good. Item #H25105
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