The American Mercury is a publication that comes out once a month in a frog-green cover for 50¢. Its writers push their noses against a cold mirror and squint at the mystical films their misting breaths design. They like to "show up" insipidities. They do so skillfully. But often what they tootle as an insipidity is verily the heart-belief of many honest folk.
In the last (February) issue of this cynical periodical, under the fishy eye of Editor Henry L. Mencken, one James D. Bernard, a...
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