The End of a Literary Decade, by James T. Farrell, THE AMERICAN MERCURY

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The End of a Literary Decade

by James T. Farrell

The American Mercury, December 1939, pp. 408-414

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    January 1939 Issue = 24 Articles
    1. Cabbages and Commissars by Ted Leitzell, pp. 1-11
    2. After the Peace of Munich by Lawrence Dennis, pp. 12-21
    3. Annual Report on Air Safety by Kenneth Brown Collings, pp. 22-29
    4. The Truth About Southern Cooking by Isabelle Post, pp. 30-34
    5. State Medicine, Navy Style by Anonymous, pp. 35-39
    6. The Steel-Strike War by Stewart H. Holbrook, pp. 40-48
    7. Jefferson by Nathan Schachner, pp. 49-55
    8. How to Beat the Landlord by Harriet Weir, pp. 56-59
    9. Karl Marx, the False Prophet by William Henry Chamberlin, pp. 60-68
    10. The Red Geranium. A Story by Hobart Lewis, pp. 69-73
    11. Editorial, pp. 74-79
    12. The Other Side by Max Lerner, pp. 80-84
    13. The State of the Union by Albert Jay Nock, pp. 85-89
    14. Americana, pp. 90-92
    15. Down to Earth by Alan Devoe, pp. 93-96
    16. Poetry by Frances Frost, p. 97
    17. II. A Gift for Parting by Tristram Livingstone, p. 97
    18. III. Pennyworth by John Russell McCarthy, p. 98
    19. The Man Who Knew Everything by John W. Thomason, Jr., pp. 99-104
    20. [+]
      The Check List, pp. 105-107 - 23 Reviews
      1. The Long Valley by John Steinbeck
      2. Garland of Bays by Gwyn Jones
      3. Nothing to Chance by Charles Plisnier
      4. William and Dorothy by Helen Ashton
      5. National Provincial by Lettice Cooper
      6. Testament by R.C. Hutchinson
      7. And If Man Triumph by George D. Snell
      8. Black is My True Love's Hair by Elizabeth Madox Roberts
      9. The House of Tavelinck by Jo van Ammers-Kuller
      10. Christmas Days by Joseph C. Lincoln
      11. The Door of Life by Enid Bagnold
      12. Bricks Without Straw by Charles G. Norris
      13. Marching Orders by I.V. Morris
      14. To the Market Place by Berry Fleming
      15. All This, and Heaven Too by Rachel Field
      16. Apropos of Dolores by H.G. Wells
      17. The Land is Large by Emerson Waldman
      18. Little Dog Lost by Tiffany Thayer
      19. The Kents by LeGrand Cannon, Jr.
      20. A Woman Screamed by Robert Neumann
      21. Fox in the Cloak by Harry Lee
      22. Maria Theresa: The Last Conservative by Constance Lily Morris
      23. Dynasty of Death by Taylor Caldwell
    21. [+]
      Miscellaneous Listen! The Wind, by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, pp. 108-112 - 33 Reviews
      1. Listen! The Wind by Anne Morrow Lindbergh
      2. Life Class by Ludwig Bemelmans
      3. A Southerner Discovers the South by Jonathan Daniels
      4. Patterns of Survival by John Hodgdon Bradley
      5. The March of the Iron Men by Roger Burlingame
      6. The Rediscovery of Man by Henry C. Link
      7. Hex Marks the Spot by Ann Hark
      8. On Going to College by Irwin Edman
      9. Variety by Paul Valery
      10. Ten Years Under the Earth by Norbert Casteret
      11. Photography and the American Scene by Robert Taft#2
      12. Let Them Live! by Stewart Hall Holbrook
      13. The Letters of Lincoln Steffens, 1889-1936 by Ella Winter, Granville Hicks, and Lincoln Steffens, ...
      14. In Search of Soviet Gold by John D. Littlepage and Demaree Bess
      15. Mussolini in the Making by Gaudens Megaro
      16. The National Mind: English, French, German by Michael Demiashkevich
      17. What Are We to Do? by John Strachey
      18. The Family by Willard Waller
      19. Nine Chains to the Moon by R. Buckminster Fuller
      20. Afterthoughts on the USSR by Andre Gide
      21. Caribbee Cruise by John W. Vandercook
      22. The Nation's Forests by William Atherton DuPuy
      23. British American Alliance by E.C. Buehler
      24. Land of the Burnt Thigh by Edith Eudora Kohl
      25. When the Merry-Go-Round Breaks Down! by Wilfred J. Funk
      26. Fishing Memories by Dorothy Noyes Arms
      27. It's an Art by Helen R. Woodward
      28. Sagas of the Evergreens by Frank H. Lamb
      29. Architecture of the Earth by Reginald Aldworth Daly
      30. Winning Oregon by Melvin C. Jacobs
      31. A History of Mexico by Henry Bamford Parkes
      32. Tell My Horse by Zora Neale Hurston
      33. Philosopher's Holiday by Irwin Edman
    22. The Open Forum, pp. 113-127
    23. The Contributors, pp. 128-139
    24. Recorded Music
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    February 1939 Issue = 24 Articles
    1. Are Conservatives Naturally Stupid?, pp. 129-135
    2. Why War Is So Popular by Harvey S. Ford, pp. 136-143
    3. The Calendar Is Out of Date by Anthony M. Turano, pp. 144-151
    4. Our Nation of Wishful Thinkers by Lawrence Dennis, pp. 152-160
    5. The Million-Word-a-Year Man by Fletcher Pratt, pp. 161-168
    6. The Homestead Murders Case by Stewart H. Holbrook, pp. 169-175
    7. Mexico's Runaway New Deal by Roberto Pina, pp. 176-182
    8. The Saga of Model T by Karl F. Zeisler, pp. 183-188
    9. The Judge Takes a Holiday. A Story by Jesse Stuart, pp. 189-199
    10. The Other Side by John Strachey, pp. 200-206
    11. The State of the Union by Albert Jay Nock, pp. 207-213
    12. Americana, pp. 214-216
    13. Down to Earth by Alan Devoe, pp. 217-222
    14. Poetry by Sara Henderson Hay, p. 223
    15. II. Praise for Night by Ralph Friedrich, p. 223
    16. III. Needle in Flesh by Frances Hall, p. 224
    17. [+]
      America for Americans? by John W. Thomason, Jr., pp. 225-231 - 1 Review
      1. The Ramparts We Watch by George Fielding Eliot
    18. [+]
      The Check List, pp. 232-234 - 22 Reviews
      1. Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren
      2. This Was a Poet by George Frisbie Whicher
      3. The Life of Christ by Hall Caine
      4. Young Longfellow, 1807-1843 by Lawrance Thompson
      5. A Puritan in Babylon by William Allen White
      6. Behind the Ballots by James A. Farley
      7. The Paderewski Memoirs by Ignace Jan Paderewski and Mary Lawton
      8. The Autobiography of William Butler Yeats by William Butler Yeats
      9. Ground Under Our Feet by Richard Theodore Ely
      10. Music In My Time by Daniel Gregory Mason
      11. The Education of an American by Mark Sullivan
      12. Goya: A Biography by Charles Poore
      13. Lillian Wald: Neighbor and Crusader by R.L. Duffus
      14. The World of Action by Valentine Williams
      15. Margaret Sanger: An Autobiography by Margaret Sanger
      16. The Hired Man on Horseback by May D. Rhodes
      17. Charles Sheeler: Artist in the American Tradition by Constance Rourke
      18. High, Wide, and Frightened by Louise M. Thaden
      19. Doctor at Timberline by Charles Fox Gardiner
      20. Patches of Sunlight by Lord Edward J.M.D.P. Dunsany
      21. Daniel Willard Rides the Line by Edward Hungerford
      22. Georgian Adventure by Douglas Jerrold
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      Miscellaneous The Family of the Barrett, by Jeannette A. Marks, pp. 235-240 - 49 Reviews
      1. The Family of the Barrett by Jeannette A. Marks
      2. The Macmillan Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians by Albert E. Wier
      3. Power: A New Social Analysis by Bertrand Russell
      4. The United States in World Affairs, 1940 by Whitney H. Shepardson and William O. Scroggs
      5. Thrice a Stranger by Vera Brittain
      6. Alone Through the Forbidden Land by Gustav Krist
      7. Indian Cavalcade by Clark Wissler
      8. The Poetical Career of Alexander Pope by Robert Kilburn Root
      9. Benjamin Franklin in Scotland and Ireland, 1759 and 1771 by J. Bennett Nolan
      10. The Pharisees by Louis Finkelstein
      11. A Parish in the Pines by Lois D. Hagen
      12. A Pearl in Every Oyster by Frank Sullivan
      13. Powder River: Let 'Er Buck by M. Struthers Burt
      14. Our Promised Land by Richard L. Neuberger
      15. Being by Paul Weiss
      16. Behold Our Land by Russell Lord
      17. Son of Old Man Hat by Walter Dyk and Left Handed
      18. High Pressure by Jesse Rainsford Sprague
      19. Laughing Diplomat by Daniele Vare
      20. McGillivray of the Creeks by John Walton Caughey
      21. Court Over Constitution by Edward S. Corwin
      22. The Day of the Liberals in Spain by Rhea Marsh Smith
      23. Through the Fog of War by Basil H. Liddell Hart
      24. Historic Salem by Samuel Chamberlain
      25. The Art of Bundling by Dana Doten
      26. They Found a Way by Iveagh Hunt Sterry and William H. Garrigus
      27. American Photographs by Walker Evans
      28. The Future of the Liberal College by Norman Foerster
      29. The Five Sisters by William E. Blatz
      30. Portraits from a Chinese Scroll by Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
      31. Medicine in Modern Society by David Riesman
      32. The Boudoir Companion by Page Cooper
      33. A Diary of My Times by Georges Bernanos
      34. Our American Tropics by John E. Jennings, Jr.
      35. The Stranger by Marcellus L. Davis, Henry P. Davis, and Charles T. Davis, ...
      36. The Windsor Tapestry by Compton Mackenzie
      37. The Modern Mind by Michael Roberts
      38. Painting for Pleasure by Morris Davidson
      39. Christianity and Politics by Albert Hyma
      40. Gloucester and Cape Ann by Samuel Chamberlain
      41. Longfellow's Wayside Inn by Samuel Chamberlain
      42. Speaking from Vermont by George D. Aiken
      43. Public Personnel Problems by Lewis Meriam
      44. American Shipping Policy by Paul Maxwell Zeis
      45. Your Life as a Woman by Margaret Green Devereux
      46. The One-Act Play Today by William Kozlenko
      47. Divorce If You Must by Frances Slade
      48. The Music Quiz by Gladys Burch and Helmut Ripperger
      49. Contemporary American Playwrights by Burns Mantle
    20. The Open Forum, pp. 241-255
    21. Contributors, pp. 256-266
    22. [+]
      The Check List - 7 Reviews
      1. Dead Ned by John Masefield
      2. The Silver Fox by Rene Hansard
      3. Derelicts by William McFee
      4. Remember the End by Agnes Sligh Turnbull
      5. War in Heaven by Philip Barry
      6. Little Steel by Upton B. Sinclair
      7. The Best British Short Stories of 1938 by Edward J. O'Brien
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      Miscellaneous Youth and I, by Eugenia Brooks - 11 Reviews
      1. Youth and I by Eugenia Brooks
      2. Invisible Stripes by Lewis Edward Lawes
      3. Through the Kitchen Door by Grace Smith, Beverly Smith, and Charles Morrow Wilson, ...
      4. Tell Me the Truth, Doctor by Irwin I. Lubowe
      5. We Are Forty and We Did Get Jobs by Clara Belle Thompson and Margaret Lukes Wise
      6. Liberality and Civilization by Gilbert Murray
      7. Annapolis Today by Kendall Banning
      8. Cecil Beaton's New York by Cecil Beaton
      9. The Patrol is Ended by Oloff deWet
      10. Alone by Richard E. Byrd
      11. Lords of the Press by George Seldes
    24. Recorded Music
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    March 1939 Issue = 23 Articles
    1. Bringing Roosevelt Up to Date by H.L. Mencken, pp. 257-264
    2. Dictators Into Gods by Eugene Lyons, pp. 265-272
    3. King James I of Michigan by Oland D. Russell, pp. 273-281
    4. I Am a Reactionary by Channing Pollock, pp. 282-292
    5. The High Cost of Lawing by Victor C. Cormier, pp. 293-297
    6. The Paint and Powder Racket by Lois Mattox Miller, pp. 298-303
    7. Hands Off Japan! by William Henry Chamberlin, pp. 304-313
    8. Vulgar Vittles by Della T. Lutes, pp. 314-321
    9. I Picket for a Living by Anonymous, pp. 322-328
    10. The San Francisco Disturbance by James Stevens, pp. 329-334
    11. Here Comes the Bridegroom. A Story by Whitfield Cook, pp. 335-343
    12. The State of the Union by Albert Jay Nock, pp. 344-350
    13. Americana, pp. 351-354
    14. Down to Earth by Alan Devoe, pp. 355-358
    15. Poetry by Sara Henderson Hay, p. 359
    16. II. Love Me as Light by Lola Pergament, p. 359
    17. III. The Meek by Edith Cherrington, p. 360
    18. [+]
      How Pure the Puritans? by John W. Thomason, Jr., pp. 361-366 - 1 Review
      1. The Puritans by Perry Miller and Thomas H. Johnson
    19. [+]
      The Check List, p. 367 - 6 Reviews
      1. Days of Our Years by Pierre van Paassen
      2. The Woman Who Could Not Die by Iulia de Beausobre
      3. My Life as a Rebel by Angelica Balabanoff
      4. Lord Macaulay, Victorian Liberal by Richmond Croom Beatty
      5. Turbulent Years by Isaac F. Marcosson
      6. Edvard Grieg by David Monrad-Johansen
    20. [+]
      Miscellaneous Full Recovery or Stagnation?, by Alvin H. Hansen, pp. 368-369 - 8 Reviews
      1. Full Recovery or Stagnation? by Alvin H. Hansen
      2. The Far Eastern Policy of the United States by A. Whitney Griswold
      3. Capitalism in Crisis by James Harvey Rogers
      4. The Story of the C.I.O. by Benjamin Stolberg
      5. Back Where I Came from by A.J. Liebling
      6. This is Democracy by Marquis W. Childs
      7. The American Reader by Burton Rascoe
      8. The Captains and the Kings Depart by Reginald B.B. Esher and Oliver Viscount Esher, ...
    21. The Open Forum, pp. 370-383
    22. Contributors, p. 384
    23. Recorded Music
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    April 1939 Issue = 29 Articles
    1. Our Totalitarian "Liberals", pp. 385-387
    2. We're Blundering Into War by Charles A. Beard, pp. 388-399
    3. The Puritan Mathers by Ernest Sutherland Bates, pp. 400-402
    4. Broadway Tries God by Joseph T. Shipley, pp. 403-409
    5. Move England To Canada! by H.W. Seaman, pp. 410-417
    6. America's Number One Fool by Clay Osborne, pp. 418-420
    7. Muckraker: Model 1939 by S. Burton Heath, pp. 421-428
    8. Portrait Of a Literary Critic. A Satire by Thomas Wolfe, pp. 429-437
    9. Shall We Drown the Unemployed? by Fred C. Kelly, pp. 438-440
    10. Underground Germany by Heinz Liepmann, pp. 441-446
    11. Thoughts On Current Discontents by H.L. Mencken, pp. 447-448
    12. Decline of the Newspaper Souse by Stanley Walker, pp. 449-455
    13. Escape From Loyalist Spain by William G. Ryan, pp. 456-462
    14. Montana Picks a Fight by Eric Thane, pp. 463-467
    15. The Well-Tressed Man by John T. Winterich, pp. 468-470
    16. The T-Men Will Get You by Upton Close, pp. 471-476
    17. Americana, pp. 477-480
    18. The State of The Union by Albert Jay Nock, pp. 481-486
    19. Down To Earth by Alan Devoe, pp. 487-490
    20. Poetry by V.F. Calverton, p. 491
    21. II. Street Corner College by Kenneth Patchen, p. 491
    22. III. Two Alabama Wildcats by Julian Lee Rayford, p. 492
    23. [+]
      We've Paid Our Debt to Lafayette by John W. Thomason, Jr., pp. 493-497 - 1 Review
      1. Lafayette: A Biography by W.E. Woodward
    24. [+]
      The Check List, p. 498 - 3 Reviews
      1. From Union Square to Rome by Dorothy Day
      2. Emperor Norton, The Mad Monarch of America by Allen Stanley Lane
      3. Apostles of Revolution by Max Nomad
    25. [+]
      Miscellaneous Through Embassy Eyes, by Martha Dodd, pp. 499-501 - 13 Reviews
      1. Through Embassy Eyes by Martha Dodd
      2. The Scandinavian States and the League of Nations by S. Shepard Jones
      3. The New Western Front by Stuart Chase and Marian Tyler
      4. Stevenson at Silverado by Anne Roller Issler
      5. Men Must Act by Lewis Mumford
      6. Women and the Revolution by Ethel Mannin
      7. Lunacy Becomes Us by Clara Leiser and Adolf Hitler
      8. South of Hitler by Marcel W. Fodor
      9. Nazi Spies in America by Leon G. Turrou and David G. Wittels
      10. Inside Germany by Albert G. Grzesinski
      11. Industrial Valley by Ruth McKenney
      12. My Day in Court by Arthur Train
      13. Inside Red China by Nym Wales
    26. Open Forum, pp. 502-509
    27. Contributors, p. 510
    28. Index, p. 511
    29. Recorded Music
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    May 1939 Issue = 30 Articles
    1. Little Jack Garner by Ulric Bell, pp. 1-8
    2. Russia's Role in Spain by Irving Pflaum, pp. 9-17
    3. Smith Street, U.S.A. by Elizabeth Hughes, pp. 18-23
    4. The End of Liechtenstein by Robert B. Hotz, pp. 24-26
    5. A Southerner Likes the North by William Edgerton, pp. 27-29
    6. Our Public Schools and Sex by Ellsworth B. Buck, pp. 30-36
    7. Fun Among the Fundamentalists by Charles Francis Potter, pp. 37-42
    8. Getting On Inc the World. A Story by Morley Callaghan, pp. 43-48
    9. Irish Persecutions In America by Doran Hurley, pp. 49-55
    10. Requiem For the League of Nations by Reginald Wright Kauffman, pp. 56-61
    11. New Styles in College Professors by Trentwell Mason White, pp. 62-68
    12. A Small-Town Editor Squawks by Anonymous, pp. 69-74
    13. As a Matter of Fact by John T. Winterich, pp. 75-77
    14. Dime-a-Dance Dive by Mary Knight, pp. 78-84
    15. The Big Baseball Scandal by J.L. Brown, pp. 85-90
    16. Worry and Grow Fat by Samuel Hochman, M.D., pp. 91-94
    17. The Hate-Your-Neighbor Rackets, pp. 95-96
    18. Americana, pp. 97-100
    19. The State of the Union by Albert Jay Nock, pp. 101-106
    20. Down to Earth by Alan Devoe, pp. 107-110
    21. Poetry by Glenn Ward Dresbach, p. 111
    22. II. Inward Glance by John Russell McCarthy, p. 111
    23. III. Hawaiian Blues by Clifford Gessler, p. 112
    24. [+]
      John Steinbeck Branches Out by Vincent McHugh, pp. 113-115 - 1 Review
      1. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
    25. [+]
      The Check List, p. 116 - 9 Reviews
      1. The Patriot by Pearl S. Buck
      2. The Story of a Lake by Negley Farson
      3. Flying Colors by C.S. Forester
      4. The Power-House by Benjamin Appel
      5. Residential Quarter by Louis Aragon
      6. No Victory for the Soldier by James Hill
      7. Seasoned Timber by Dorothy Canfield
      8. This Time a Better Earth by Ted Allan
      9. Dossie Bell is Dead by Jack Boone
    26. [+]
      Biography My Memoir, by Edith Bolling Wilson, p. 117 - 10 Reviews
      1. My Memoir by Edith Bolling Wilson
      2. Edgar Wallace by Margaret Lane
      3. Albert Einstein by H. Gordon Garbedian
      4. Schacht: Hitler's Magician by Norbert Muhlen
      5. Anthony Eden: A Biography by Alan Campbell-Johnson
      6. Lee, Grant and Sherman by Alfred H. Burne
      7. Leonardo da Vinci by Antonina Vallentin
      8. Whitman by Newton Arvin
      9. The Mad Queen of Spain by Michael Prawdin
      10. My Wife and I by Sidney Homer
    27. [+]
      Miscellaneous Survey After Munich, by Graham Hutton, pp. 118-119 - 16 Reviews
      1. Survey After Munich by Graham Hutton
      2. Lincoln's Doctor's Dog by George Cooper Stevens
      3. Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler
      4. The Literature of the Rocky Mountain West, 1803-1903 by Levette J. Davidson and Prudence Bostwick
      5. Europe on the Eve by Frederick L. Schuman
      6. A Poet and Two Painters by Knud Merrild
      7. The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler by Maximilian Baur
      8. The English Revolution, 1688-1689 by George Macaulay Trevelyan
      9. America at War, 1917-1918 by Frederic L. Paxson
      10. America Faces a Complete Breakdown of Government and Business by William J. Baxter
      11. The Man Who Killed Lincoln by Philip Van Doren Stern
      12. The Rise of New York Port, 1815-1860 by Robert Greenhalgh Albion and Jennie Barnes Pope, ...
      13. Inns and Outs by Julius Keller
      14. The Presidency, the Supreme Court and Seven Senators by William Henry Murray
      15. Etchings of New York City by Anton Schutz
      16. Democracy and the Curriculum by Harold Rugg
    28. Open Forum, pp. 120-127
    29. Contributors, pp. 128-143
    30. Recorded Music
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    June 1939 Issue = 32 Articles
    1. Father Coughlin by John McCarten, pp. 129-141
    2. Pioneer's Return by Adelaide Walker, pp. 142-147
    3. Germany Can't Win! by George Fielding Eliot, pp. 148-156
    4. Ghost Goes to College by Roy A. Benjamin, Jr., pp. 157-160
    5. Elliott Roosevelt by Herbert Corey, pp. 161-167
    6. Lunacy, p. 168
    7. San Francisco, A Dying City by Phil Hamilton, pp. 169-175
    8. Negroes Reject Communism by George S. Schuyler, pp. 176-181
    9. Capsule Wisdom, p. 182
    10. Peep Show by Leonard Ross, pp. 183-189
    11. Buchmanism by Ernest Sutherland Bates, pp. 190-197
    12. Misdeal. A Story by Andre Maurois, pp. 198-202
    13. The General Slocum Disaster by Alan Macdonald, pp. 203-208
    14. Don't Be Your Own Architect! by Roger Burlingame, pp. 209-215
    15. Education for Ward-Heelers by Will Irwin, pp. 216-219
    16. "Painless" Childbirth by Anonymous and Dr. J.T. Bolotin, pp. 220-224
    17. Americana, pp. 225-227
    18. The State of the Union by Albert Jay Nock, pp. 228-232
    19. Poetry by Louis Stoddard, p. 233
    20. II. These Dark Hills by Jesse Stuart, p. 233
    21. III. Surf-Board Rider by Edith Cherrington, p. 234
    22. IV. Spring Song by Catharine Connell, p. 235
    23. V. Plantation Girl by Luella Stone, p. 235
    24. Down to Earth by Alan Devoe, pp. 236-239
    25. [+]
      America at High Noon by Alfred Kazin, pp. 240-243 - 2 Reviews
      1. Fighting Years by Oswald Garrison Villard
      2. America in Midpassage by Charles A. Beard and Mary R. Beard
    26. [+]
      The Check List, p. 244 - 8 Reviews
      1. The Thibaults by Roger Martin Du Gard
      2. Doctor Addams by Irving Fineman
      3. The Young Cosima by Henry Handel Richardson
      4. The Middle Passage by Roland Barker and William Doerflinger
      5. Over the Mountain by Ruthven Todd
      6. Spring Journey by Geneva Stephenson
      7. Here Comes a Candle by Storm Jameson
      8. The Wild Palms by William Faulkner
    27. [+]
      Biography Diego Rivera: His Life and Times, by Bertram D..., p. 245 - 9 Reviews
      1. Diego Rivera: His Life and Times by Bertram D. Wolfe
      2. All in the Day's Work by Ida M. Tarbell
      3. Miss Bax of the Embassy by Emily Bax
      4. Fremont: Pathmarker of the West by Allan Nevins
      5. The Autobiography of a German Rebel by Toni Sender
      6. I Wanted to Be an Actress by Katharine Cornell and Ruth Woodbury Sedgwick
      7. Which Way America? by Lyman Bryson
      8. Let Me Think by Harry A. Overstreet
      9. Here Comes Labor by Chester M. Wright
    28. [+]
      Miscellaneous They Worked for a Better World, by Allan Seager, pp. 246-247 - 15 Reviews
      1. They Worked for a Better World by Allan Seager
      2. Man's Estate by Alfred M. Bingham
      3. The Sun at Noon by Kenneth B. Murdock
      4. Knowledge for What? by Robert Staughton Lynd
      5. The Lake of the Royal Crocodiles by Eileen Bigland
      6. The Logic of Modern Psychology by Carroll C. Pratt
      7. The Adventures of a Happy Man by Channing Pollock
      8. Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic by Vilhjalmur Stefansson
      9. Curtains Going up by Albert McCleery
      10. The Psychology of Making Life Interesting by Wendell White
      11. Your City by Edward L. Thorndike
      12. The Watcher at the Nest by Margaret Morse Nice
      13. Escape to Life by Erika Mann and Klaus Mann
      14. Sculpture Inside and Out by Malvina Hoffman
      15. Latin America by T.H. White
    29. Open Forum, pp. 248-255
    30. Contributors, pp. 256-266
    31. [+]
      Check List - 9 Reviews
      1. Pale Horse, Pale Rider by Katherine Anne Porter
      2. Born of Woman by Raymonde Vincent
      3. The Stricklands by Edwin Lanham
      4. Lizzie Borden: A Study in Conjecture by Marie Belloc Lowndes
      5. Bitter Creek by James Boyd
      6. Wind Without Rain by Herbert Krause
      7. Inn of that Journey by Emerson Price
      8. Pity of the World by Elinor Mordaunt
      9. Rope of Gold by Josephine Herbst
    32. Recorded Music
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    July 1939 Issue = 30 Articles
    1. Impregnable America by Hanson W. Baldwin, pp. 257-267
    2. Our Tribe of Ribbon Hunters by Isaac F. Marcosson, pp. 268-274
    3. Philadelphia by Alan Frazier, pp. 275-282
    4. Hitler Must Fight! by Henry C. Wolfe, pp. 283-289
    5. Paul Revere, Esq. by Stewart H. Holbrook, pp. 290-292
    6. Mrs. Dilling by Milton S. Mayer, pp. 293-299
    7. The Wages of Cinema by Wolfe Kaufman, pp. 300-301
    8. Stalin's American Passport Mill by Herbert Solow, pp. 302-309
    9. The Justice of the Peace Racket by Mitchell Dawson, pp. 310-313
    10. Little Family. A Story by Nancy Hale, pp. 314-318
    11. The Man Who Started the War by Vladimir Lebedeff, pp. 319-324
    12. Lobbyists Must Live by J. Frederick Essary, pp. 325-329
    13. Fingerprints Can Be Forged by Jack Callahan, pp. 330-333
    14. Capsule Wisdom, p. 334
    15. Grandma Ruthanna, Troublemaker by Isabel Jackson, pp. 335-340
    16. The Road to Gloro by Walter Modell, pp. 341-343
    17. So You Want to Live in Sweden? by Fairfax Downey, pp. 344-346
    18. Materia Aphrodisia by Allen Wright, pp. 347-352
    19. Americana, pp. 353-355
    20. The State of The Union by Albert Jay Nock, pp. 356-360
    21. Down to Earth by Alan Devoe, pp. 361-364
    22. Poetry by Mildred Cousens, p. 365
    23. II. Professorial Mood by Evelyn Scott, p. 366
    24. [+]
      James Joyce: Genius or Charlatan? by Paul Rosenfeld, pp. 367-370 - 1 Review
      1. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
    25. [+]
      The Check List, p. 371 - 7 Reviews
      1. The Adventures of a Young Man by John Dos Passos
      2. The Bridegroom Cometh by Waldo David Frank
      3. Harvest by Jean Giono
      4. Drums at Dusk by Arna Bontemps
      5. Valedictory by MacKinlay Kantor
      6. Take These Hands by Anne Paterson
      7. The Altar Piece by Naomi Royde-Smith
    26. [+]
      Miscellaneous We Shall Live Again, by Maurice Hindus, pp. 372-374 - 25 Reviews
      1. We Shall Live Again by Maurice Hindus
      2. Letters of Askance by Christopher Morley
      3. American Medicine Mobilizes by James Rorty
      4. We Didn't Ask Utopia by Harry Timbres and Rebecca Timbres
      5. Ninety Times Guilty by Hickman Powell
      6. American Jazz Music by Wilder Hobson
      7. The Family Reunion by T.S. Eliot
      8. The Letters of T.E. Lawrence by David Garnett and T.E. Lawrence
      9. The Menacing Sun by Mona Gardner
      10. Common Sense in Home Decoration by Carl Maas
      11. I Found Out by Nat J. Ferber
      12. The Kingdom of Swing by Benny Goodman and Irving Kolodin
      13. Head Wind by Winifred S. Loraine
      14. Feudal Island by Desmond Holdridge
      15. Secret and Urgent by Fletcher Pratt
      16. American Earth by Carleton Beals
      17. Contemporary World Politics by Francis James Brown, Charles Hodges, and Joseph Slabey Roucek, ...
      18. Invisible Empire by Stanley F. Horn
      19. Indian Costume Book by Julia M. Seton
      20. Quo Vadimus? Or the Case for the Bicycle by E.B. White
      21. Bald Knobbers by Lucile Morris
      22. The Delegate from New York by Joseph Reese Strayer and John Lansing, Jr.
      23. What do We Believe---And Why? by Charles Edward Brugler
      24. World Communism by Franz Borkenau
      25. Survival: Through War and Revolution in Russia by D. Fedotoff White
    27. Open Forum, pp. 375-382
    28. Contributors, pp. 383-392
    29. [+]
      The Check List - 9 Reviews
      1. Ordeal by Nevil Shute
      2. The Holy Terror by H.G. Wells
      3. The Midas Touch by Margaret Kennedy
      4. Katia by Princess Marthe Bibesco
      5. The Age of the Fish by Odon von Horvath
      6. The Prisoner Ate a Hearty Breakfast by Jerome Ellison
      7. Yoke of Stars by Frances Frost
      8. Murder to Hounds by Edward Acheson
      9. Going Their Own Ways by Alec Waugh
    30. Recorded Music
  8. [+]
    August 1939 Issue = 30 Articles
    1. Beware The Third Termites! by Eugene Lyons, pp. 385-391
    2. Shall We Annex Texas? by Owen P. White, pp. 392-400
    3. The Headmaster Murder Mystery by Harland Manchester, pp. 401-407
    4. Our State Lawmakers by John T. Winterich, pp. 408-409
    5. How Strong Is Russia? by Erich Wollenberg, pp. 410-417
    6. Elegant Life of the Steel Barons by Stewart H. Holbrook, pp. 418-423
    7. Capsule Wisdom, p. 424
    8. Sex Under the Swastika by S.L. Solon and Albert Brandt, pp. 425-432
    9. Ethan Allen by Nathan Schachner, pp. 433-436
    10. This Is War! by Charles Rumford Walker, pp. 437-443
    11. Mystic Happiness in Harlem by Claude McKay, pp. 444-450
    12. In The Black Morning. A Story by Ira Wolfert, pp. 451-458
    13. My Home Town's A Democracy by Charles E. Hewitt, Jr., pp. 459-463
    14. Utopia Comes to Canada by Stuart Shaw, pp. 464-471
    15. Group Medicine At Work by Frank J. Taylor, pp. 472-475
    16. Americana, pp. 476-478
    17. The State of The Union by Albert Jay Nock, pp. 479-482
    18. Down to Earth by Alan Devoe, pp. 483-486
    19. Poetry by Glenn Ward Dresbach, p. 487
    20. II. The Witless Heart by Louis Stoddard, p. 488
    21. III. A Man Must Lie by John Russell McCarthy, p. 488
    22. [+]
      Dos Passos and the Critics by James T. Farrell, pp. 489-493 - 1 Review
      1. The Adventures of a Young Man by John Dos Passos
    23. [+]
      The Check List, p. 494 - 3 Reviews
      1. Anne Minton's Life by Myron Brinig
      2. Next to Valour by John Jennings
      3. Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig
    24. [+]
      Biography Autobiography, with Letters, by William Lyon P..., p. 495 - 4 Reviews
      1. Autobiography, with Letters by William Lyon Phelps
      2. A Doctor for the People by Michael A. Shadid
      3. Tintypes in Gold by Joseph Henry Jackson
      4. Soldier of the Church by Ludwig Marcuse
    25. [+]
      Miscellaneous Inside Asia, by John Gunther, pp. 495-499 - 45 Reviews
      1. Inside Asia by John Gunther
      2. Dictatorship in the Modern World by Guy Stanton Ford
      3. Bombs Bursting in Air by George Fielding Eliot
      4. Wheat and Soldiers by Ashihei Hino
      5. Moses and Monotheism by Sigmund Freud
      6. Black Folk: Then and Now by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois
      7. Reorganization of the National Government by Lewis Meriam and Laurence F. Schmeckebier
      8. Seven Grass Huts by Cecile Hulse Matschat
      9. Indian Oasis by Janette Woodruff and Cecil Dryden
      10. Negro Education in Alabama by Horace Mann Bond
      11. The Development of Political Theory by Otto F. von Gierke
      12. Armies of Spies by Joseph Gollomb
      13. No Compromise by Melvin M. Rader
      14. Europe on the Eve by Frederick L. Schuman
      15. Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupery
      16. Security: Can We Retrieve It? by Arthur Salter
      17. The End of Economic Man by Peter F. Drucker
      18. War in Our Time by Hans Speier and Alfred Kahler
      19. Night Over England by Eugene Lohrke and Arline Lohrke
      20. The World Over: 1938 by Joseph Hilton Smyth and Charles Angoff
      21. Sweden: A Modern Democracy on Ancient Foundations by Nils Herlitz
      22. Democracy and Socialism by Arthur Rosenberg
      23. Society in Transition by Harry Elmer Barnes
      24. My Heart's in the Highlands by William Saroyan
      25. Maule's Curse by Yvor Winters
      26. Huntsman, What Quarry? by Edna St. Vincent Millay
      27. Corn by Paul Engle
      28. Planets, Stars, and Atoms by George Edwin Frost
      29. A History of Science, Technology and Philosophy in the Eighteenth Century by Abraham Wolf
      30. Men Can Take It by Elizabeth Hawes
      31. Goodbye to Berlin by Christopher Isherwood
      32. Alexander of Yugoslavia by Stephen Graham
      33. Connecticut: Past and Present by Odell Shepard
      34. Blood is Cheaper Than Water by Quincy Howe
      35. With Malice Toward All by Irving D. Tressler
      36. Secret Agents Against America by Richard Wilmer Rowan
      37. Three Americanists by Randolph G. Adams
      38. Satanism and Witchcraft by Jules Michelet
      39. Penthouse of the Gods by Theos Bernard
      40. I Swear by Apollo by William E. Aughinbaugh
      41. African Notebook by Albert Schweitzer
      42. Propaganda for War by Horace Cornelius Peterson
      43. Medicine at the Crossroads by Bertram M. Bernheim
      44. The Gardener's Almanac by Edward I. Farrington
      45. Marcy and the Gold Seekers by Grant Foreman
    26. Open Forum, pp. 500-509
    27. Contributors, p. 510
    28. Index, p. 511
    29. Recorded Music
    30. [+]
      Check List - 13 Reviews
      1. The Open Sky by L.A.G. Strong
      2. The Gladiators by Arthur Koestler
      3. Pride and Passion: Robert Burns, 1759-1796 by J. De Lancey Ferguson
      4. Sardinian Brigade by Emilio Lussu
      5. The Day of the Locust by Nathanael West
      6. Let Me Breathe Thunder by William Attaway
      7. The Horse that Could Whistle Dixie, and Other Stories by Jerome Weidman
      8. In Polish Woods by Joseph Opatoshu
      9. A Book of Miracles by Ben Hecht
      10. Fifty Best American Short Stories, 1915-1939 by Edward J. O'Brien
      11. The Best Short Stories, 1939 by Edward J. O'Brien
      12. Thirteen O'Clock by Stephen Vincent Benet
      13. Forever Wilt Thou Love by Ludwig Lewisohn
  9. [+]
    September 1939 Issue = 30 Articles
    1. Hitler or Christ by Rev. Charles S. MacFarland, pp. 1-10
    2. Undergraduates Never Change by Irwin Edman, pp. 11-17
    3. The Silver Swindle by Herbert Corey, pp. 18-25
    4. The Art of the Off-Color Story by Parke Cummings, pp. 26-29
    5. Carol, Rumania's Glamour King by Willi Schlamm, pp. 30-36
    6. Yankees Are Human by David L. Graham, pp. 37-41
    7. Divorce by Murder by Courtney Ryley Cooper, pp. 42-49
    8. Japan Can't Rule China by Hallett Abend, pp. 50-56
    9. Licensed Loan Sharks by Noah Rotwein, pp. 57-63
    10. Capsule Wisdom, p. 64
    11. Fighting Disease in Paradise by Jerome Beatty, pp. 65-70
    12. Lunacy, p. 71
    13. Husbands Grow on Trees. A Story by Whitfield Cook, pp. 72-78
    14. Baseball Madness In Brooklyn by John Escher, pp. 79-84
    15. Moscow's Man In Washington by Joseph H. Baird, pp. 85-88
    16. Camera Fans Are Suckers by Sigmund Sameth, pp. 89-91
    17. The Millionaire Lunatic Fringe by Isabel Lundberg, pp. 92-98
    18. Americana, pp. 99-101
    19. The State of The Union by Albert Jay Nock, pp. 102-105
    20. Down to Earth by Alan Devoe, pp. 106-109
    21. Poetry by Catharine Connell, p. 110
    22. II. Maine Fog: Inland by Elias Lieberman, p. 111
    23. [+]
      Louis XVI and Napoleon by James T. Farrell, pp. 112-117 - 2 Reviews
      1. The Life and Death of Louis XVI by Saul K. Padover
      2. Napoleon in Review by George Gordon Andrews
    24. [+]
      The Check List, p. 118 - 5 Reviews
      1. Mr. Emmanuel by Louis Golding
      2. Abel Dayton by Flannery Lewis
      3. Sons Without Anger by Stanley Young
      4. The Hopkins Manuscript by R.C. Sherriff
      5. The Captain's Wife by Storm Jameson
    25. [+]
      Biography I Knock at the Door, by Sean O'Casey, p. 119 - 3 Reviews
      1. I Knock at the Door by Sean O'Casey
      2. Tumbling in the Hay by Oliver St. John Gogarty
      3. Country Lawyer by Bellamy Partridge
    26. [+]
      Miscellaneous The Mexican Challenge, by Frank L. Kluckhohn, pp. 119-120 - 6 Reviews
      1. The Mexican Challenge by Frank L. Kluckhohn
      2. Not Peace But a Sword by Vincent Sheean
      3. Columbia Poetry 1939 by Charles Hanson Towne
      4. World Economy in Transition by Eugene Staley
      5. Factories in the Field by Carey McWilliams
      6. In Blood and Ink by Maury Maverick
    27. Open Forum, pp. 121-127
    28. Contributors, pp. 128-139
    29. Recorded Music
    30. [+]
      The Check List - 12 Reviews
      1. The Priory by Dorothy Whipple
      2. Listen for the Voices by Anne Colver
      3. Not All Your Laughter by Sally Gibbs
      4. The Book of the States, 1939-40
      5. Salween by Ronald Kaulback
      6. The Orchid Hunters by Norman MacDonald
      7. African Heroes and Heroines by Carter Godwin Woodson
      8. The March of Mind by Frank Sherwood Taylor
      9. Neo-Neutrality by Georg Cohn
      10. Our Federal Government and How It Functions (#20)
      11. The Priests of Lucina by Palmer Findley
      12. Guinea Pigs and Bugbears by G.L. Eskew
  10. [+]
    October 1939 Issue = 35 Articles
    1. What Price College Football? by John R. Tunis, pp. 129-142
    2. Behind the Moscow-Berlin Axis by Max Nomad, pp. 143-147
    3. The American Legion Takes Orders by Milton S. Mayer, pp. 148-157
    4. Making Fools of Philatelists by Stephen Naft, pp. 158-162
    5. Sense and Sensation on Latin America by Nicholas Roosevelt, pp. 163-169
    6. Lunacy, pp. 170-171
    7. Are You the Suicide Type? by John H. Cassity, M.D., pp. 172-177
    8. Stars Over Broadway by Grenville Vernon, pp. 178-180
    9. Hooch and Homicide in Mississippi by Craddock Goins, pp. 181-186
    10. Molly Pitcher, Hardboiled Heroine by Fairfax Downey, pp. 187-190
    11. Not Time, But Rhythm. A Story by George W. Willis, pp. 191-196
    12. "Did I Do Wrong?" by Gretta Palmer, pp. 197-203
    13. Capsule Wisdom, p. 204
    14. Dictatorship of the Good Cause by R.G. Waldeck, pp. 205-211
    15. De King Is Daid! by Raymond Grow, pp. 212-215
    16. Life Begins at Eighty! by Daniel Carter Beard, pp. 216-217
    17. --- by James H. Hare, p. 218
    18. --- by Otis Skinner, p. 219
    19. --- by August Heckscher, p. 220
    20. --- by Abraham Cahan, p. 221
    21. --- by William Douglas Johns, pp. 222-223
    22. The State of the Union, pp. 224-228
    23. Americana, pp. 229-231
    24. Down to Earth by Alan Devoe, pp. 232-235
    25. Poetry by Ralph Friedrich, p. 236
    26. The Other Prophet by Geoffrey Johnson, p. 236
    27. Rain in Uruapan, Mexico by Clifford Gessler, p. 237
    28. [+]
      Stalin, Autocrat of All the Russias by Eugene Lyons, pp. 238-243 - 1 Review
      1. Stalin: A Critical Survey of Bolshevism by Boris Souvarine
    29. [+]
      The Check List, p. 244 - 9 Reviews
      1. Henry, King of France by Heinrich Mann
      2. Frost and Fire by Elliott Merrick
      3. Authors in Paradise by Alan Griffiths
      4. Conceived in Liberty by Howard Fast
      5. The Long Dream by Sigrid Boo
      6. Black Narcissus by Rumer Godden
      7. Only the Young by Elliott Arnold
      8. Days Before Lent by Hamilton Basso
      9. Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo
    30. [+]
      Miscellaneous You and Heredity, by Amram Scheinfeld and Mort..., pp. 245-246 - 12 Reviews
      1. You and Heredity by Amram Scheinfeld and Morton D. Schweitzer, Ph.D., ...
      2. Old Gods Falling by Malcolm Elwin
      3. The Answer: The Jew and the World by Ludwig Lewisohn
      4. Germany Rampant by Ernest Hambloch
      5. Europe---Going, Going, Gone! by Count Ferdinand Czernin
      6. Magic Dials by Lowell Thomas
      7. This Is War! by Lucien Zacharoff
      8. Small Beer by Ludwig Bemelmans
      9. The Strangest Places by Leonard Q. Ross
      10. Hunger and History by E. Parmalee Prentice
      11. Crime is a Business by John C.R. MacDonald
      12. The Foundations of Democracy by Thomas V. Smith and Robert A. Taft
    31. Open Forum, pp. 247-255
    32. Contributors, pp. 256-266
    33. [+]
      The Check List - 6 Reviews
      1. Journey Proud by Thomasine C. McGehee
      2. The Ownley Inn by Joseph C. Lincoln and Freeman Lincoln
      3. Asleep in the Afternoon by E.C. Large
      4. Mr. Klein's Kampf by H. Allen Smith
      5. Murder's Coming by Donald Clough Cameron
      6. Who Killed Aunt Maggie? by Medora Field
    34. [+]
      Miscellaneous Man Against Microbe, by Joseph W. Bigger - 5 Reviews
      1. Man Against Microbe by Joseph W. Bigger
      2. The Poison Trail by William F. Boos
      3. Our Town's Business by Omar P. Goslin and Ryllis Goslin
      4. A History of California: The Spanish Period by Charles E. Chapman
      5. A History of California: The American Period by Robert Glass Cleland
    35. Recorded Music
  11. [+]
    November 1939 Issue = 30 Articles
    1. Japan Takes Over the Philippines by Bryce Oliver, pp. 257-263
    2. Communist Agent by Jan Valtin, pp. 264-271
    3. Wisconsin's Problem Governor by Harvey W. Schwandner, pp. 272-275
    4. When Last We Were Neutral by Harry Elmer Barnes, pp. 276-284
    5. Labor In the World of Tomorrow by Stanley High, pp. 285-291
    6. "The Publick Universal Friend" by Ernest Sutherland Bates, pp. 292-295
    7. Germany and a Prolonged War by Fritz Sternberg, pp. 296-303
    8. Senator Reynolds Saves America by Ulric Bell, pp. 304-311
    9. Lunacy, pp. 312-313
    10. The Farmer and the New Deal by Owen P. White, pp. 314-323
    11. You Can't Sing That! by Dick Dorrance and Jo Ranson, pp. 324-326
    12. Madame Jumel: Vice-Queen by Zelda Popkin, pp. 327-333
    13. The Tinker. A Story by T.F. Healy, pp. 334-337
    14. Our Tradition of Violence by Stewart H. Holbrook, pp. 338-344
    15. Capsule Wisdom, p. 345
    16. The Passing of the Pool Shark by Edward Jerome Vogeler, pp. 346-351
    17. The State of the Union by Eugene Lyons, pp. 352-356
    18. Americana, pp. 357-359
    19. Down to Earth by Alan Devoe, pp. 360-363
    20. Poetry by Robert P. Tristram Coffin, p. 364
    21. II. The Unleashed by Helen Howland Prommel, p. 365
    22. III. Viking Pioneer by Joseph Langland, p. 365
    23. [+]
      All in the Name of Anthropology by Burton Rascoe, pp. 366-370 - 2 Reviews
      1. Twilight of Man by Earnest A. Hooton
      2. The Southern Poor-White: From Lubberland to Tobacco Road by Shields McIlwaine
    24. [+]
      Check List, pp. 371-372 - 10 Reviews
      1. Watch for the Dawn by Stuart Cloete
      2. Sailor Off the Bremen, and Other Stories by Irwin Shaw
      3. The Bride by Margaret Irwin
      4. Shanghai '37 by Vicki Baum
      5. Monkshood by Eden Phillpotts
      6. Doctor's Oral by George R. Stewart
      7. Another Cynthia by Doris Leslie
      8. Queen Anne Boleyn by Francis Hackett
      9. Broad is the Way by Emerson Waldman
      10. Double Blackmail by G.D.H. Cole and Margaret Cole
    25. [+]
      Biography I Lost My English Accent, by Cecil V.R. Thompson, p. 373 - 8 Reviews
      1. I Lost My English Accent by Cecil V.R. Thompson
      2. Kean: Paradoxical Genius by Giles Playfair
      3. Hollywood Saga by William C. de Mille
      4. Arthur Rimbaud by Enid Starkie
      5. Across the Busy Years by Nicholas Murray Butler
      6. Henry George: An Essay by Albert Jay Nock
      7. From Another World by Louis Untermeyer
      8. My Road to India by Nilla Cram Cook
    26. [+]
      Miscellaneous Step by Step, 1936-1939, by Winston S. Churchill, p. 374 - 10 Reviews
      1. Step by Step, 1936-1939 by Winston S. Churchill
      2. In Search of Peace by Neville Chamberlain
      3. In Defense of France by Edouard Daladier
      4. Democracy---Today and Tomorrow by Eduard Benes
      5. Big Business and Radio by Gleason L. Archer
      6. Let the Record Speak by Dorothy Thompson
      7. Iron Brew by Stewart H. Holbrook
      8. The Museum in America by Laurence Vail Coleman
      9. Science Today and Tomorrow by Waldemar Kaempffert
      10. War Gazetteer by Bryce Oliver
    27. [+]
      Poetry This, My Letter, by Sara Henderson Hay, p. 375 - 1 Review
      1. This, My Letter by Sara Henderson Hay
    28. The Open Forum, pp. 376-383
    29. Contributors, p. 384
    30. Recorded Music
  12. [+]
    December 1939 Issue = 29 Articles
    1. Hitler Told Me This by Hermann Rauschning, pp. 385-393
    2. Stalin's Great American Hoax by Herbert Solow, pp. 394-402
    3. Pecos Bill, Cyclone Buster by Irving Fiske, pp. 403-407
    4. The End of a Literary Decade by James T. Farrell, pp. 408-414
    5. The Czechs Prepare to Strike by Emil Lengyel, pp. 415-422
    6. Thought Heard Round the World by Katharine Roberts, pp. 423-425
    7. New Jersey, Politicians' Paradise by McAlister Coleman, pp. 426-433
    8. Football's Palace Revolution by Harland Manchester, pp. 434-439
    9. Lunacy, pp. 440-441
    10. Poland Without a Halo by Max Nomad, pp. 442-448
    11. Game of Cards. A Story by Robert Clurman, pp. 449-455
    12. Another Grand Old Party by I.D.W. Talmadge, pp. 456-461
    13. Vocal Boys Make Good by Jerry Mason, pp. 462-464
    14. Angry Editor of the South by Craddock Goins, pp. 465-470
    15. Bohemia on the Campus by Maurice Zolotow, pp. 471-476
    16. The State of the Union by Eugene Lyons, pp. 477-481
    17. Americana, pp. 482-484
    18. Down to Earth by Alan Devoe, pp. 485-488
    19. Poetry by Frances Frost, p. 489
    20. II. A Fugitive Text by Matthew Biller, p. 489
    21. III. Russia Invades Poland by John Gould Fletcher, p. 490
    22. [+]
      Wanted: Art Critics by Jerome Mellquist, pp. 491-495 - 7 Reviews
      1. A Treasury of Art Masterpieces by Thomas Craven
      2. A Treasury of American Prints by Thomas Craven
      3. Modern American Painting by Peyton Boswell, Jr.
      4. The Gist of Art by John Sloan
      5. Art in America by Holger Cahill and Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
      6. And He Sat Among the Ashes by William Schack
      7. Have We An American Art? by Edward Alden Jewell
    23. [+]
      Check List, p. 496 - 8 Reviews
      1. Christmas Holiday by W. Somerset Maugham
      2. Tommy Gallagher's Crusade by James T. Farrell
      3. Live and Kicking Ned by John Masefield
      4. Seven Against the Years by Sterling North
      5. The Nazarene by Sholem Asch
      6. Kitty Foyle by Christopher Morley
      7. Hudson Rejoins the Herd by Claude Houghton
      8. The Day Before by H.M. Tomlinson
    24. [+]
      Biography Thoreau, by Henry Seidel Canby, p. 497 - 6 Reviews
      1. Thoreau by Henry Seidel Canby
      2. Forging Ahead by Wilfred G. Partington
      3. Sidney Hillman: Labor Statesman by George H. Soule
      4. A Victorian in the Modern World by Hutchins Hapgood
      5. Whistler's Father by Albert Parry
      6. Mr. Cibber of Drury Lane by Richard Hindry Barker
    25. [+]
      Miscellaneous Marxism: An Autopsy, by Henry Bamford Parkes, pp. 498-499 - 10 Reviews
      1. Marxism: An Autopsy by Henry Bamford Parkes
      2. Law and Politics by Felix Frankfurter and Archibald MacLeish, Jr., ...
      3. Maud by Richard Lee Strout and Isabella Maud Rittenhouse, ...
      4. How War Came by Raymond Gram Swing
      5. The History of an Advertising Agency by Ralph M. Hower
      6. Forty-Five Minutes Past Eight by Ward Morehouse
      7. Freedom and Culture by John Dewey
      8. Giddy Minds and Foreign Quarrels by Charles A. Beard
      9. Juggernaut: The Path of Dictatorship by Albert H.Z. Carr
      10. Forces in American Criticism by Bernard Smith
    26. Open Forum, pp. 500-509
    27. Contributors, p. 510
    28. Index To Volume XlvIII, p. 511
    29. Recorded Music
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