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History Out of a Catalogue

The Good Old Days, by David L. Cohn

by David L. Cohn

The Saturday Review, March 9, 1940, pp. 11-12

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      January 6, 1940 Issue = 26 Articles
      1. Freedom of the Air by Morris Ernst and Alexander Lindey, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        War of the Vultures by Richard A. Cordell, p. 5 - 1 Review
        The Eagles Gather by Taylor Caldwell
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        Wishing Game by William Maxwell, p. 5 - 1 Review
        Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan
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        People of the Short Grass by Stanley Vestal, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Our Common Herd by Sue Sanders
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        Farce with a Purpose by Basil Davenport, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Let the People Sing by J.B. Priestley
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        T.S. Eliot and Totalitarianism by Joseph Ratner, p. 7 - 1 Review
        The Idea of a Christian Society by T.S. Eliot
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        Poet and Botanist by Donald Culross Peattie, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Three Acres and a Mill by Robert Gathorne-Hardy
      8. Editorial, p. 8
      9. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
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        Storms and Shelter by John Scott Mabon, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Turn Ever Northward by Margaret Barrington
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        Family Goat by Rosemary Carr Benet, p. 10 - 1 Review
        But You Are Young by Josephine Lawrence
      12. [+]
        Wagner---et al. by Paul Henry Lang, p. 11 - 1 Review
        The Metropolitan Opera Guide by Mary Ellis Peltz and Robert Lawrence
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        Discovery of Life by N.L. Rothman, p. 11 - 1 Review
        Love in the Sun by Leo Walmsley
      14. [+]
        Main Lines of Science by George R. Harrison, p. 12 - 1 Review
        Science Marches On by Walter Shepherd
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        The Next President by Joseph Hilton Smyth, p. 12 - 1 Review
        1940~~Nineteen Forty by Jay Franklin
      16. Profile of a Booklover by Ben Abramson, pp. 13-15
      17. The Compleat Collector by John T. Winterich, p. 16
      18. Your Literary I.Q. by Howard Collins, p. 16
      19. [+]
        Ideas Behind National Socialism by Toni Stolper, p. 17 - 1 Review
        Weltanschauung, Science, and Economy by Werner Sombart
      20. [+]
        Birds East of the Rockies by Louis J. Halle, Jr., p. 18 - 1 Review
        A Natural History of American Birds of Eastern and Central North America by Edward Howe Forbush and John Bichard May
      21. [+]
        The French Empire by Crane Brinton, p. 18 - 1 Review
        France Overseas Through the Old Regime by Herbert Ingram Priestley
      22. [+]
        The Leveling Process by William O. Scroggs, p. 19 - 1 Review
        The Ending of Hereditary American Fortunes by Gustavus Myers
      23. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 19 - 5 Reviews
        Over My Dead Body by Rex Stout
        The African Poison Murders by Elspeth Huxley
        The Case of the Deadly Diary by William Du Bois
        Death at the Bar by Ngaio Marsh
        Turn on the Heat by A.A. Fair
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        The New Books, p. 20 - 8 Reviews
        Son of Carolina by Augustus White Long
        Past the End of the Pavement by Charles G. Finney
        Blossom Like the Rose by Norah Lofts
        Mountain Top by Claire Sainte-Soline
        Vera by Georg Kaiser
        World Without End by Stoyan Pribichevich
        Keep America Out of War by Norman Thomas and Bertram D. Wolfe
        Fearsome Critters by Henry H. Tryon
      25. Trade Winds by P.E.G. Quercus, pp. 21-22
      26. Double-Crostics No. 302, pp. 23-24
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      January 13, 1940 Issue = 24 Articles
      1. The Lecture Business by Upton Close, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        Richness in Life and Writing by R. Ellis Roberts, p. 5 - 1 Review
        Testament of Friendship by Vera Brittain
      3. [+]
        The Old North State by Jonathan Daniels, p. 6 - 1 Review
        North Carolina: A Guide to the Old North State (#31)
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        Nadir of Life by Harold Courlander, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Hell on Trial by Rene Belbenoit
      5. [+]
        Diplomacy or Economics by James Frederick Green, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Why Britain Is at War by Harold G. Nicolson
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        Education of a Soldier by Ben Ray Redman, p. 7 - 1 Review
        No Arms, No Armour by Robert Henriques
      7. Editorial, p. 8
      8. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      9. The Gallup Poll of Authors, pp. 10-12
      10. [+]
        21 Questions by Joseph Hilton Smyth, p. 13 - 1 Review
        The All-American Front by Duncan Aikman
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        Preconventional by Melville Cane, p. 13 - 1 Review
        The Story of Thomas E. Dewey by Rupert Hughes
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        An Amphibian War in Pictures by Robert G. Albion, p. 14 - 1 Review
        Naval Sketches of the War in California by William H. Meyers and Dudley W. Knox
      13. [+]
        The Democratic Idea by Robert C. Brooks, p. 15 - 1 Review
        New Adventures in Democracy by Ordway Tead
      14. [+]
        The Church and the State by Prince H. zu Loewenstein, p. 16 - 1 Review
        The Catholic Crisis by George Seldes
      15. [+]
        Complex but Clear by Louis Untermeyer, p. 17 - 1 Review
        Modern Poetry and Tradition by Cleanth Brooks
      16. [+]
        Shakespeare and His American Critics by Esther Cloudman Dunn, p. 18 - 1 Review
        American Shakespearean Criticism, 1607-1865 by Alfred V.R. Westfall
      17. [+]
        Industrial Democrat by William O. Scroggs, p. 18 - 1 Review
        Sidney Hillman: Labor Statesman by George H. Soule
      18. [+]
        The Rape of the Land by John Hodgdon Bradley, p. 19 - 1 Review
        Vanishing Lands by G.V. Jacks and R.O. Whyte
      19. [+]
        Literary Reference, p. 19 - 1 Review
        The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Literature
      20. [+]
        Poor Whites Are Not Idiots by Jonathan Daniels, p. 20 - 2 Reviews
        Faces We See by Mildred Gwin Barnwell
        The Southern Poor-White: From Lubberland to Tobacco Road by Shields McIlwaine
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        The Criminal Record, p. 20 - 7 Reviews
        The Norths Meet Murder by Frances Lockridge and Richard Lockridge
        Grave Without Grass by Donald Clough Cameron
        The Man with Two Names by John Palmer
        A Picture of the Victim by John Stephen Strange
        Gale Warning by Dornford Yates
        The House Party by Edgar Allan Poe, Jr.
        Shadows Before by Dorothy Bowers
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        The New Books, pp. 21-22 - 6 Reviews
        World-Famous Paintings by Rockwell Kent
        Blood Wedding by Federico Garcia Lorca
        Boss Man by Louis Cochran
        Dalesacres by Florence J. Baier Ward
        Cosmic Rays by R.A. Millikan
        Invitation to Roumania by Derek Patmore
      23. Double-Crostics No. 303, p. 23
      24. Trade Winds by P.E.G Quercus, p. 24
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      January 20, 1940 Issue = 27 Articles
      1. Open Letter to the Reading Public, p. 3
      2. Where the Doe Awakes by Joseph Joel Keith, p. 4
      3. [+]
        Benton's "Tom Sawyer" by Clyde Brion Davis, p. 5 - 1 Review
        The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain
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        Martin Hare's Ironical Novel by Richard A. Cordell, p. 5 - 1 Review
        Polonaise by Martin Hare
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        Haven in America by N.L. Rothman, p. 6 - 1 Review
        The Cradle Builder by Walter Schoenstedt
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        The Game of Murder by Basil Davenport, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Same Way Home by Rupert Croft-Cooke
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        Milton's Literary Milieu by George Wesley Whiting
        Milton in Chancery by J. Milton French
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        News and the Human Interest Story by Helen MacGill Hughes
      9. Editorial, p. 8
      10. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
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        Period Piece by Jenny Ballou
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        Awake and Sing by Stephen Vincent Benet, p. 12 - 1 Review
        The Creative Adult by Hughes Mearns
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        Poetry that Affirms by Leonard Bacon, p. 13 - 1 Review
        Original Poems by Arthur William Ryder
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        Plays for Radio by Dudley Fitts, p. 14 - 1 Review
        The Four Apes, and Other Fables of Our Day by Alfred Kreymborg
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        Instrument of the State by Fletcher Pratt, pp. 14-15 - 1 Review
        Agent of Death by Robert G. Elliott and Alberg R. Beatty
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        Rimbaud in Two Translations by Paul Rosenfeld, p. 16 - 2 Reviews
        A Season in Hell by Arthur Rimbaud
        Some Poems of Rimbaud by Arthur Rimbaud
      17. [+]
        Everglade State by Theodore Pratt, p. 16 - 1 Review
        Florida: A Guide to the Southernmost State (#34)
      18. [+]
        "Frontier of Liberty" by Crane Brinton, p. 16 - 1 Review
        The Story of Modern France, 1610-1914 by John G. Coulter
      19. [+]
        "Tragic Genius" by Alexander Cowie, p. 17 - 1 Review
        Perilous Balance by W.B.C. Watkins
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        Art in Mexico by Oliver Larkin, p. 17 - 3 Reviews
        Mexican Popular Arts by Frances Toor
        Modern Mexican Art by Laurence Eli Schmeckebier
        Art from the Mayans to Disney by Jean Charlot
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        Krenek Spielt Auf by Irving Kolodin, p. 18 - 1 Review
        Music Here and Now by Ernst Krenek
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        Sixty-Dollar Island by Raymond Holden, p. 18 - 1 Review
        In Privateer's Bay by Robb White
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        The New Books, p. 19 - 7 Reviews
        The Way of Western Art, 1776-1914 by Edgar Preston Richardson
        Mrs. Tim of the Regiment by Dorothy Emily Stevenson
        The Dust Within the Rock by Frank Waters
        America Faces South by Thomas R. Ybarra
        Birds in the Garden and How to Attract Them by Margaret McKenny
        Three Years Down by Jonathan Norton Leonard
        Carolina Gardens by E.T.H. Shaffer
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        The Criminal Record, p. 20 - 4 Reviews
        Time Off for Murder by Zelda Popkin
        Death Thumbs a Ride by Jean Lilly
        Bright Star of Danger by Whitman Chambers
        Adventure in Washington by Leonard Q. Ross
      25. Trade Winds by P.E.G. Quercus, p. 21
      26. Records in Review by Edward Tatnall Canby, p. 22
      27. Double-Crostics No. 304, pp. 23-24
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      January 27, 1940 Issue = 21 Articles
      1. What's the Matter With Popular Science? by George Russell Harrison, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        Time and Aldous Huxley by George Catlin, p. 5 - 1 Review
        After Many a Summer Dies the Swan by Aldous Huxley
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        Nonage of an Iconoclast by Jonathan Daniels, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Happy Days, 1880-1892 by H.L. Mencken
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        Japan from Inside by Harold G. Henderson, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Restless Wave: My Life in Two Worlds by Haru Matsui
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        Drawing-Room Combedy by Joseph R. Strayer, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Caroline of England by Peter Quennell
      6. Editorial, p. 8
      7. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      8. [+]
        Exploring the Story of Columbus by Garrett Mattingly, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Christopher Columbus by Salvador de Madariaga
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        Stoic Childhood by James Gray, p. 10 - 1 Review
        There Were No Heroes by George W. Ogden
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        Miss Hull's Experiments by Rosemary Carr Benet, p. 11 - 1 Review
        Experiment by Helen Hull
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        In the Lineage of "Jurgen" by Basil Davenport, p. 11 - 1 Review
        Hamlet Had an Uncle by James Branch Cabell
      12. I Know He Was Right by Christopher LaFarge, pp. 12-15
      13. [+]
        Toucans and Jaguars by Louis J. Halle, Jr., p. 16 - 1 Review
        The Great Naturalists Explore South America by Paul Russell Cutright
      14. [+]
        Ulrich B. Phillips and the Old South by George Fort Milton, p. 16 - 1 Review
        The Course of the South to Secession by Ulrich B. Phillips and E. Merton Coulter
      15. [+]
        Memoirs of an Ex-Communist by Fletcher Pratt, p. 17 - 1 Review
        I Confess: The Truth About American Communism by Benjamin Gitlow
      16. [+]
        Arts of the Indians by Oliver LaFarge, p. 18 - 1 Review
        Indian Arts in North America by George C. Vaillant
      17. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 18 - 5 Reviews
        Hugger-Mugger in the Louvre by Elliot Paul
        Death on the Boat-Train by John Rhode
        The Girl Who Had to Die by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
        Murder on Parade by Carolyn Wells
        Written in Dust by Miles Burton
      18. [+]
        Elizabeth and Her Merry Men by Conyers Read, pp. 18-19 - 1 Review
        The Elizabethan Journals by G.B. Harrison
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        The New Books, pp. 20-22 - 5 Reviews
        The Life of Mrs. Godolphin by John Evelyn and Harriet Sampson
        Lester F. Ward, the American Aristotle by Samuel Chugerman
        Listen to the Mocking Bird by Hester Pine
        One Way Ticket by Eugene O'Brien
        Armies with Wings by James L.H. Peck
      20. Double-Crostics No. 305, p. 23
      21. Trade Winds by P.E.G. Quercus, p. 24
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      1. American Fin-de-Siecle by Alfred Kazin, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        Galileo's Life in a Biographical Novel by Garrett Mattingly, p. 5 - 1 Review
        The Star-Gazer by Zsolt de Harsanyi
      3. [+]
        Annals of the Poor by William Jay Gold, p. 5 - 1 Review
        River of Earth by James Still
      4. [+]
        A Novel of Revolution by J.P. Marquand, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Sons and Fathers by Maurice Hindus
      5. [+]
        The Making of an Actress by Richard Lockridge, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Letters to Mary by Catherine Hayes Brown
      6. Editorial, p. 8
      7. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      8. [+]
        Tahitians on a Boat-Ride by Oliver La Farge, p. 10 - 1 Review
        No More Gas by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
      9. [+]
        Ella Wheeler Wilcox by Stephen Vincent Benet, pp. 10-11 - 1 Review
        Period Piece by Jenny Ballou
      10. [+]
        A Guide to the Seeing by Sydney Greenbie, p. 12 - 1 Review
        I Begin Again by Alice Bretz
      11. A Reader's Almanac: Jan. Feb. March, pp. 13-15
      12. [+]
        Tories at Work by James F. Green, p. 16 - 1 Review
        Under the British Umbrella by Helen Paull Kirkpatrick
      13. [+]
        Lineage of Greed by Palmer Harman, p. 16 - 1 Review
        Manners and Morals of Business by Max Radin
      14. [+]
        Two Journals of the Revolutionary War, p. 17 - 2 Reviews
        Colonial Panorama, 1775 by Philip Padelford and Robert Honyman
        Revolutionary War Journals of Henry Dearborn, 1775-1783 by Henry Dearborn, Howard H. Peckham, and Lloyd A. Brown, ...
      15. [+]
        Exploding a Fallacy of American History by Henry Seidel Canby, p. 17 - 1 Review
        The Log Cabin Myth by Harold R. Shurtleff
      16. [+]
        A Critical Study of China's Struggle by T.A. Bisson, p. 18 - 1 Review
        China at War by Freda Utley
      17. [+]
        Jacobean Dramatists by W.T. Hastings, p. 18 - 1 Review
        Studies in Beaumont, Fletcher, and Massinger by Baldwin Maxwell
      18. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 18 - 5 Reviews
        Murder in Shinbone Alley by Helen Reilly
        Case with Four Clowns by Leo Bruce
        General Besserley's Second Puzzle Box by E. Phillips Oppenheim
        Stand-In for Death by Margaret Echard
        Murder in Miniatures by Sam Merwin, Jr.
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        The New Books, pp. 19-22 - 13 Reviews
        Leonardo da Vinci by Kenneth Clark
        Appointment with Death by Pamela Frankau
        Curtain Going Up by Sophie Kerr
        Men in Chains by Thomas Ryan
        Hitler's Twelve Apostles by Oswald Dutch
        America's Treasure by W. Maxwell Reed
        Hawks in the Hand by Frank Craighead and John Craighead
        New Castle, Delaware 1651-1939 by Anthony Higgins
        Book of the Broadleaf Trees by Frank H. Lamb
        Charles Peirce's Empiricism by Justus Buchler
        We Went to War by Herbert D. Gallaudet
        Race with Death by Caroline Parker-Smith
        Warfare: The Relation of War to Society by Ludwig Renn
      20. Double-Crostics No. 306, p. 23
      21. Trade Winds by P.E.G. Quercus, p. 24
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      February 10, 1940 Issue = 19 Articles
      1. The Age of Godey's by Gwen Bristow, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        "An Age of Goodness I Knew" by Ben Ray Redman, p. 5 - 1 Review
        How Green Was My Valley by Richard Llewellyn
      3. [+]
        A Major Crisis of Civilization by Garrett Mattingly, p. 6 - 1 Review
        The Emperor Charles V by Karl Brandi
      4. [+]
        Veteran's Rebirth by Richard A. Cordell, p. 7 - 1 Review
        On a Darkling Plain by Wallace Stegner
      5. [+]
        A Novel of the British Theater by Richard Lockridge, p. 7 - 1 Review
        The Dark Star by March Cost
      6. Editorial, p. 8
      7. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      8. [+]
        Germans against Hitler by Toni Stolper, p. 10 - 1 Review
        The Other Germany by Erika Mann and Klaus Mann
      9. [+]
        Final Collection by Harry Thornton Moore, p. 11 - 1 Review
        The Scrapbook of Katherine Mansfield by J. Middleton Murry and Katherine Mansfield
      10. [+]
        The World at Seventeen by William Maxwell, p. 11 - 1 Review
        Walk Like a Mortal by Dan Wickenden
      11. [+]
        A Book and an Idea by George Catlin, pp. 12-13 - 1 Review
        Union Now: With Great Britain by Clarence K. Streit
      12. [+]
        No Peace Within the Walls of Faith by Fletcher Pratt, pp. 14-15 - 1 Review
        As a Driven Leaf by Milton Steinberg
      13. [+]
        Wine from These Grapes by Thomas Burton, p. 16 - 1 Review
        The Grapes of Wrath (1940 Film) by John Ford
      14. [+]
        Harold Laski's Essays by Crane Brinton, pp. 16-17 - 1 Review
        The Danger of Being a Gentleman, and Other Essays by Harold J. Laski
      15. [+]
        Between the Lyric and the Didactic by Selden Rodman, p. 18 - 1 Review
        Autumn Journal by Louis MacNeice
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        The Criminal Record, p. 18 - 8 Reviews
        The French Key by Frank Gruber
        Murder Bicarb by Delia Van Deusen
        X Marks the Spot by Lee Thayer
        The Private Practice of Michael Shayne by Brett Halliday
        Murder Loves Company by John Mersereau
        No Mourners Present by Frank G. Presnell
        The Portrait of Jirjohn Cobb by Harry Stephen Keeler
        Murder Times Three by Amelia Reynolds Long
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        The New Books, pp. 19-20 - 6 Reviews
        Pauline Frederick: On and Off the Stage by Muriel Elwood
        Frontier Doctor by Urling C. Coe
        The Elephant Is White by Caryl Brahms and S.J. Simon
        Trouble for Lucia by E.F. Benson
        The Inside Story by Robert Spiers Benjamin
        Lyric Poems by William Thomas Walsh
      18. Trade Winds by P.E.G. Quercus, pp. 21-22
      19. Double-Crostics No. 307, pp. 23-24
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      February 17, 1940 Issue = 26 Articles
      1. [+]
        All Our Yesterdays by David L. Cohn, pp. 3-4 - 1 Review
        Since Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen
      2. [+]
        Out of His Own Mouth by Toni Stolper, p. 5 - 1 Review
        The Voice of Destruction by Hermann Rauschning
      3. [+]
        Aristocratic Rebels by John Scott Mabon, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Final Hosting by Patrick Welch
      4. [+]
        Main Street Macadamized by Frank Daniel, p. 6 - 1 Review
        The Unwilling Journey by C.P. Lee
      5. [+]
        Hoosier River by Richard A. Cordell, p. 7 - 1 Review
        The Wabash by William E. Wilson
      6. [+]
        Dr. Cushing's Papers by Mabel S. Ulrich, p. 7 - 1 Review
        The Medical Career, and Other Papers by Harvey Cushing
      7. Editorial, p. 8
      8. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      9. [+]
        The Undying Detective by R. Ellis Roberts, pp. 10-11 - 1 Review
        221 B: Studies in Sherlock Holmes~~Two Hundred Twenty-One B: Studies in Sherlock Holmes by Vincent Starrett
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        Southeast Passage by I.A.R. Wylie, p. 12 - 2 Reviews
        India Ink by Philip Steegman
        Sanda Mala by Maurice Collis
      11. [+]
        Three Sisters by William C. De Vane, p. 12 - 1 Review
        These Were the Brontes by Dorothy H. Cornish
      12. [+]
        A Teacher's Two Worlds by William Lyon Phelps, p. 13 - 1 Review
        A Teacher and His Times by William Adams Brown
      13. The Author of "Pinocchio" by Giuseppe Prezzolini, p. 14
      14. [+]
        Gnarled Lives by N.L. Rothman, p. 15 - 1 Review
        Pay Thy Pleasure by Elisabeth Inglis-Jones
      15. [+]
        Behind the Westwall by John C. DeWilde, pp. 15-16 - 1 Review
        Within Germany by Oswald Garrison Villard
      16. [+]
        Walt Disney's "Pinocchio" by Thomas Burton, p. 17 - 1 Review
        Pinocchio (1940 Film) by Hamilton Luske and Ben Sharpsteen
      17. [+]
        Reports from the East by T.A. Bisson, p. 18 - 2 Reviews
        News Is My Job by Edna Lee Booker
        Through China's Wall by Graham Peck
      18. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 18 - 5 Reviews
        Subscription to Murder by M.V. Heberden
        In the Teeth of the Evidence, and Other Mysteries by Dorothy L. Sayers
        Rope for a Convict by R.C. Woodthorpe
        Sinfully Rich by Hulbert Footner
        Death Croons the Blues by James Ronald
      19. [+]
        Power and Morality in Foreign Policies by Crane Brinton, p. 19 - 1 Review
        The Twenty Years' Crisis, 1919-1939 by Edward H. Carr
      20. [+]
        Civilized Tribe by Oliver La Farge, p. 19 - 1 Review
        Cherokee Cavaliers by Edward Everett Dale and Gaston Litton
      21. [+]
        A Neglected Poet by Dudley Fitts, p. 19 - 1 Review
        Richard Crashaw by Austin Warren
      22. [+]
        Key-Spots of Tension by David H. Popper, p. 20 - 1 Review
        Europe Downstream by Leonard O. Mosley
      23. [+]
        Big Top in England, p. 20 - 1 Review
        Luke's Circus by Ruth Manning-Sanders
      24. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 21-22 - 4 Reviews
        Flight by Arthur Omre
        Framed in Hardwood by Eric Lowe
        Dildo Cay by Nelson Hayes
        "Humane Endeavor" by Haldore Hanson
      25. Double-Crostics No. 308, p. 23
      26. Trade Winds by P.E.G. Quercus, p. 24
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      1. Pater Patriae: the Washington Theme by Allan Nevins, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
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        Trouble in July by Erskine Caldwell
      3. [+]
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        The Loon Feather by Iola Fuller
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        Elbert Hubbard: Genius of Roycroft by David Arnold Balch
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        The New World Order by H.G. Wells
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        Other Gods by Pearl S. Buck
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        Rousing Romance, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Show Me a Land by Clark Meekin
      8. Editorial, p. 8
      9. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      10. [+]
        Crime & Conscience by Ben Ray Redman, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Windless Cabins by Mark Van Doren
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        Growing Pains, p. 10 - 1 Review
        The Years of Growth by Harold Sinclair
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        Decade: 1929-1939 by Stephen Longstreet
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        Novice by Rosemary Carr Benet, p. 11 - 1 Review
        The Convent by Alyse Simpson
      14. [+]
        Justice Cardozo's Reading by George S. Hellman, pp. 12-15 - 1 Review
        Benjamin N. Cardozo: American Judge by George S. Hellman
      15. [+]
        Publishing and Its Raw Materials by Frank Morley, p. 16 - 1 Review
        The English Book Trade by Marjorie Plant
      16. [+]
        American Saints by Herbert Asbury, p. 16 - 1 Review
        Saints in Action by Dumas Malone
      17. [+]
        Still There's a Way Out by Robert C. Brooks, p. 17 - 1 Review
        The Impasse of Democracy by Ernest S. Griffith
      18. Records in Review by Edward T. Canby, p. 18
      19. [+]
        Government by Prime Minister by James Frederick Green, p. 18 - 1 Review
        Men in Our Time by Audax
      20. [+]
        The New Books, p. 19 - 5 Reviews
        Essays and Addresses by Oliver Elton
        Solitaire by Edwin Corle
        Faith, Hope and a Horse by John Benton
        No Birds Sing by Leslie Edgley
        The Autobiography of an Egret by Edward A. McIlhenny
      21. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 20 - 6 Reviews
        Road to Folly by Leslie Ford
        And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
        Enter Three Witches by Paul McGuire
        Footsteps in the Air by Susan Wells
        The Lava Flow Murders by Max Long
        The Criminal C.O.D. by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
      22. Trade Winds by P.E.G. Quercus, pp. 21-22
      23. Double-Crostics NO. 309, pp. 23-24
    9. [+]
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      1. G.A. Henty by Harvey S. Ford, p. 3
      2. Three Poems by Nym Wales, p. 4
      3. [+]
        Man Against the World by Jonathan Daniels, p. 5 - 1 Review
        Native Son by Richard A. Wright
      4. [+]
        Pioneer Family by Richard A. Cordell, p. 5 - 1 Review
        The Trees by Conrad Richter
      5. [+]
        "Blind Force, Pure Chance" by John T. Winterich, p. 6 - 1 Review
        It Was Like This by Hervey Allen
      6. [+]
        Herbaceous Border by R. Ellis Roberts, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Going Native by Oliver St. John Gogarty
      7. [+]
        Fitful Glimpses by Louis Untermeyer, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Selected Letters of Edward Arlington Robinson by Edwin Arlington Robinson
      8. Editorial, p. 8
      9. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      10. [+]
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        Finland by J. Hampden Jackson
        The Spirit of Finland by Willis N. Bugbee
        Cooperation to the Finnish by Henry H. Bakken
        Finland: Land of Heroes by Toivo Rosvall
      11. [+]
        Struggle for Power by Joseph R. Strayer, p. 11 - 1 Review
        Competition for Empire, 1740-1763 by Walter Louis Dorn
      12. [+]
        Nevil Shute's Novel of Dream and Reality by Basil Davenport, p. 11 - 1 Review
        An Old Captivity by Nevil Shute
      13. Our Town Talks About Books by Dorothea B. Hoover, pp. 12-18
      14. A Reader's Almanac by Virginia Kirkus, p. 19
      15. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 19 - 4 Reviews
        Greek Tragedy by G.D.H. Cole and Margaret Cole
        The Affairs of O'Malley by William MacHarg
        The Patience of Maigret by Georges Simenon
        Death Stalks the Fleet by Harley Francis Cope
      16. [+]
        Art from Two Sources by Oliver Larkin, p. 19 - 1 Review
        Modern Art in America by Martha Candler Cheney
      17. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 20-22 - 5 Reviews
        A Voyage to Cacklogallinia by Captain Samuel Brunt
        Peter Anthony Dey by Jack T. Johnson
        Uncle Snowball by Frances Frost
        Rehearsal for Love by Faith Baldwin
        And So Dedicated by Thomas Burton
      18. Double-Crostics No. 310, p. 23
      19. Trade Winds by P.E.G. Quercus, p. 24
    10. [+]
      March 9, 1940 Issue = 24 Articles
      1. American Literature by R. Ellis Roberts, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        Winchell's Spiritual Ancestor by Garrett Mattingly, p. 5 - 1 Review
        Aretino, Scourge of Princes by Thomas Caldecot Chubb
      3. [+]
        Shakespeare Summa by William Allan Neilson, p. 5 - 1 Review
        The Art and Life of William Shakespeare by Hazelton Spencer
      4. [+]
        Read, Do Not Run--- by Jacques Barzun, p. 6 - 1 Review
        How to Read a Book by Mortimer J. Adler
      5. [+]
        The Man Who Made Himself by Joseph F. Dinneen, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Calvin Coolidge: The Man from Vermont by Claude M. Fuess
      6. Editorial, p. 8
      7. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      8. [+]
        Orphans of the Twentieth Century by Marianne Hauser, p. 10 - 1 Review
        A Stricken Field by Martha Gellhorn
      9. [+]
        "H.C.B." by William Rose Benet, p. 10 - 1 Review
        The Life and Letters of Henry Cuyler Bunner by Gerard Edward Jensen and Henry Cuyler Bunner
      10. [+]
        History Out of a Catalogue by David L. Cohn, pp. 11-12 - 1 Review
        The Good Old Days by David L. Cohn
      11. [+]
        The Forces that Wrecked the Peace by James Frederick Green, p. 13 - 1 Review
        The Storm Breaks by Frederick T. Birchall
      12. [+]
        Ashes of Prophecy by N.L. Rothman, p. 13 - 1 Review
        Europe to Let by Storm Jameson
      13. [+]
        Music as You Like It by Irving Kolodin, p. 14 - 1 Review
        The Well-Tempered Listener by Deems Taylor
      14. [+]
        Bourbons of the South by Frank Daniel, p. 14 - 1 Review
        Spring Will Come Again by Florence Glass Palmer
      15. [+]
        The Boston Legend by Katharine Simonds, p. 15 - 1 Review
        The Black Winds Blow by Frances Bainbridge Colby
      16. [+]
        Deserted Village by George Dangerfield, p. 15 - 1 Review
        The Happy Land by Eric Knight
      17. [+]
        The Criminal Record, pp. 16-17 - 5 Reviews
        Golden Guilt by Francis Gerard
        Unexpected Night by Elizabeth Daly
        No Outlet by Arthur M. Chase
        Five for Bridge by Ernest Ward
        The Broken Face Murders by Darwin L. Teilhet and Hildegarde Teilhet
      18. [+]
        Capitalism: Did It Work? Will It Work? by Palmer Harman, p. 18 - 2 Reviews
        Economics for the Millions by Henry Pratt Fairchild
        Capitalism the Creator by Carl Snyder
      19. [+]
        Man-Made Country by Hendrik Van Loon, p. 18 - 1 Review
        The Dutch by Adriaan J. Barnouw
      20. Abe Lincoln in Illinois by Thomas Burton, p. 19
      21. Your Literary I.Q. by Howard Collins, p. 19
      22. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 20-22 - 10 Reviews
        The Best One-Act Plays of 1939 by Margaret Mayorga
        There Are Brothers by Fanny Heaslip Lea
        Scandinavia: The Background for Neutrality by Alma Luise Olson
        Harvest at Stillmeadow by Gladys Taber
        Southward Ho! by William La Varre
        Ghosts of London by H.V. Morton
        Forty-Eight Horses by Humphry B. Neill
        Elizabethan Music and Musical Criticism by Morrison Comegys Boyd
        A Smattering of Ignorance by Oscar Levant
        We Call It Human Nature by Paul Grabbe and Gardner Murphy
      23. Double-Crostics No. 311, p. 23
      24. Trade Winds by P.E.G. Quercus, p. 24
    11. [+]
      March 16, 1940 Issue = 20 Articles
      1. "Des Imagistes" by Richard Aldington, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        Can Britain Win the Peace? by John C. DeWilde, p. 5 - 1 Review
        For What Do We Fight? by Norman Angell
      3. [+]
        Transient Aristocracy by Jonathan Daniels, p. 5 - 1 Review
        Chronicles of Chicora Wood by Elizabeth W. Allston Pringle
      4. [+]
        Spotlight on the Pacific Northwest by George R. Stewart, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Swift Flows the River by Nard Jones
      5. [+]
        Newspaper Man in the Nation's Capital by Charles McD. Puckette, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Chip Off My Shoulder by Thomas L. Stokes
      6. [+]
        The Light That Failed by Eugene Lyons, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Stalin's Russia and the Crisis in Socialism by Max Eastman
      7. Editorial, p. 8
      8. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      9. [+]
        Portrait of the Artist by Mary M. Colum, p. 10 - 1 Review
        James Joyce: His First Forty Years by Herbert S. Gorman
      10. The Amateur Professional by W.W. Williams, pp. 11-12
      11. [+]
        Chains for the Future by David H. Popper, p. 13 - 1 Review
        What Germany Forgot by James T. Shotwell
      12. [+]
        Who's Healthy Now? by Toni Stolper, p. 13 - 1 Review
        Heil Hunger! Health Under Hitler by Martin Gumpert
      13. [+]
        The Odyssey of One J. Beatty by Linton Wells, p. 14 - 1 Review
        Americans All Over by Jerome Beatty, Jr.
      14. [+]
        Hurricane Farm by Frank Daniel, p. 15 - 1 Review
        Follow the Drinking Gourd by Frances O.J. Gaither
      15. [+]
        Munich in Fiction by Ben Ray Redman, p. 15 - 1 Review
        Sixteen Days by Hans Habe
      16. [+]
        Design against Living by Marianne Hauser, pp. 16-17 - 1 Review
        The Fugitive by John Grane
      17. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 18 - 4 Reviews
        Murder Without Clues by Joseph L. Bonney
        Death Down East by Eleanor Blake
        The Case of the Baited Hook by Erle Stanley Gardner
        Death Over Sunday by James Francis Bonnell
      18. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 19-22 - 9 Reviews
        Three Portraits: Hitler, Mussolini, Stalin by Emil Ludwig
        Red Lanterns on St. Michael's by Thornwell Jacobs
        Jack and Jill by Ernest Weekley
        The State of Music by Virgil Thomson
        The Human Meaning of Science by Arthur H. Compton
        Burma Road by Nicol Smith
        This Way Southward by A.F. Tschiffely
        Cincinnati: Story of the Queen City by Clara Longworth de Chambrun
        Guatemala, Past and Present by Chester Lloyd Jones
      19. Double-Crostics No. 312, p. 23
      20. Trade Winds by P.E.G. Quercus, p. 24
    12. [+]
      March 23, 1940 Issue = 22 Articles
      1. You Used to Read it, Too by M.A. DeWolfe Howe, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        Honi Soit Qui Mal Y Pense by Ernest Boyd, p. 5 - 1 Review
        Oscar Wilde and the Yellow Nineties by Frances Winwar
      3. [+]
        Dilettante Bachelor in a Spanish Town by Robert E. Spiller, p. 6 - 1 Review
        The Spanish Adventures of Washington Irving by Claude G. Bowers
      4. [+]
        The Trouser-less Philosophy of Mr. M. by Hassoldt Davis, p. 6 - 1 Review
        The Wandering Years by Weston Martyr
      5. [+]
        Mr. Lewis's Suppressed Desire by Ben Ray Redman, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Bethel Merriday by Sinclair Lewis
      6. Your Literary I.Q., p. 7
      7. Editorial, p. 8
      8. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      9. Mr. Farrell Writes a Letter by James T. Farrell, p. 10
      10. [+]
        Psychology and Symbolism by Harry Thornton Moore, p. 10 - 1 Review
        The Crazy Hunter by Kay Boyle
      11. [+]
        Bigger Fuse than Bomb by Irwin Edman, p. 11 - 1 Review
        Dangerous Thoughts by Lancelot T. Hogben
      12. [+]
        The Boy Did Not Grow Older by Basil Davenport, p. 12 - 1 Review
        Summer's Lease by E. Arnot Robertson
      13. [+]
        Not Without Wormwood by Richard A. Cordell, p. 12 - 1 Review
        Life's a Circus by Eleanor Furneaux Smith
      14. [+]
        A Southerner Discovers Peterborough, N.H. by Jonathan Daniels, pp. 13-14 - 1 Review
        A Southerner Discovers New England by Jonathan Daniels
      15. [+]
        Wrong Tense by Henry C. Wolfe, p. 15 - 1 Review
        Finland Fights by Herbert B. Elliston
      16. [+]
        Young Target of the 1917 Gendarmerie by Lamar Middleton, p. 16 - 1 Review
        A Liberal in Wartime by Walter Nelles and Lewis Gannett
      17. [+]
        Mob Psychology by Bertram D. Lewin, M.D., pp. 16-17 - 1 Review
        Beyond the Clinical Frontiers by Edward A. Strecker
      18. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 18 - 4 Reviews
        The Corpse Steps Out by Craig Rice
        Rolling Stone by Patricia Wentworth
        Murder in Marble by Judson Philips
        A Matter of Iodine by David Keith
      19. The Compleat Collector by John T. Winterich, p. 19
      20. [+]
        The New Books, p. 20 - 3 Reviews
        The Birth of an American Tradition in Art by Oskar Hagen
        Mr. Smith Meet Mr. Cohen by James Waterman Wise and Lee J. Levinger
        Our Arabian Nights by Ruth Hoffman and Helen Hoffman
      21. Trade Winds by P.E.G. Quercus, pp. 21-22
      22. Double-Crostics No. 313, pp. 23-24
    13. [+]
      March 30, 1940 Issue = 24 Articles
      1. Prose and Politics by Blair Bolles, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        Earthly and Heavenly Quarry by William Rose Benet, p. 5 - 1 Review
        The Labyrinthine Ways by Graham Greene
      3. [+]
        Scandinavian Canvas by Marianne Hauser, p. 5 - 1 Review
        The King's Men by Johan Bojer
      4. [+]
        Mr. Bates's Monument by Crane Brinton, p. 6 - 1 Review
        American Faith by Ernest Sutherland Bates
      5. [+]
        Speculative Genius by Perry Miller, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Jonathan Edwards, 1703-1758 by Ola Elizabeth Winslow
      6. [+]
        Joads of the Covered Wagon by Clyde Brion Davis, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Don't You Cry for Me by John Weld
      7. Editorial, p. 8
      8. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      9. [+]
        Bitter Sweet in London by R. Ellis Roberts, p. 10 - 1 Review
        The Two Wives by Frank Swinnerton
      10. [+]
        Puritan Passions by Richard Aldington, p. 10 - 1 Review
        The Power and the Glory by Phyllis Bentley
      11. [+]
        Realistic Fiction and Meyer Levin by James T. Farrell, p. 11 - 1 Review
        Citizens by Meyer Levin
      12. Your Literary I.Q. No. 10, p. 11
      13. [+]
        A Rider to Remember by Ben Ray Redman, p. 12 - 1 Review
        High Sierra by W.R. Burnett
      14. [+]
        American Arden by James Gray, p. 12 - 1 Review
        Under the Redwood Trees by George Digby
      15. [+]
        Escape and Acceptance by Louis Untermeyer, p. 13 - 6 Reviews
        Poems from the Greenberg Mss. by James Laughlin
        Hawthorn Time in Ireland, and Other Poems by Plowden Kernan
        Time Strikes by Edward Ames Richards
        Proud Universe by Sydney King Russell
        Homeward to America by John Ciardi
        The Connecticut River, and Other Poems by Reuel Denney
      16. Where Authors Become Writers by George Arliss, pp. 14-15
      17. [+]
        Pleasant Excursion: Likable Guide by Oliver La Farge, p. 16 - 1 Review
        End of the River by Desmond Holdridge
      18. [+]
        Conscious Flirt by Alexander Cowie, pp. 16-17 - 1 Review
        Madame Recamier by Henry Dwight Sedgwick
      19. [+]
        The Criminal Record, pp. 18-19 - 4 Reviews
        One Man's Poison by Cortland Fitzsimmons
        Murder Through the Looking Glass by Robert George Dean
        The So Blue Marble by Dorothy B. Hughes
        Mr Polton Explains by R. Austin Freeman
      20. [+]
        Books into Pictures by Thomas Burton, p. 20 - 3 Reviews
        No Arms, No Armour by Robert Henriques
        The Hospital by Kenneth Fearson
        Portrait of Jennie by Robert Nathan
      21. Records in Review by Edward Tatnall Canby, p. 21
      22. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 21-22 - 3 Reviews
        Tristram Bent by Henry Barnard Safford
        Out in Society by Margaret Culkin Banning
        Parliament by W. Ivor Jennings
      23. Double-Crostics No. 314, p. 23
      24. Trade Winds by P.E.G. Quercus, p. 24
  2. [+]
    Issues of Apr.-Jun. 1940 = 13 Issues, 283 Articles
    1. [+]
      April 6, 1940 Issue = 26 Articles
      1. [+]
        Literary Stereoscope by Henry F. Pringle, pp. 3-4 - 1 Review
        The Good Old Days by David L. Cohn
      2. [+]
        Hints to the "Liberal Intellectuals" by Lindsay Rogers, pp. 5-6 - 1 Review
        The American Stakes by John Chamberlain
      3. Literary I.Q., p. 7
      4. [+]
        Flem Snopes and His Kin by Stephen Vincent Benet, p. 7 - 1 Review
        The Hamlet by William Faulkner
      5. [+]
        Hitler Wouldn't Have a Chance by R. Ellis Roberts, p. 8 - 1 Review
        The Provincial Lady in Wartime by E.M. Delafield
      6. [+]
        Young Barbarians by William Rose Benet, p. 8 - 1 Review
        Winter Term by John Harriman
      7. [+]
        Cradle or Deathbed of Civilization? by Henry B. Kranz, p. 9 - 1 Review
        What Has Happened to Europe? by Geoffrey T. Garratt
      8. [+]
        Swift Salmagundi of American Life by Thomas L. Stokes, p. 9 - 1 Review
        I've Met the Folks You Read About by Labert St. Clair
      9. [+]
        Two Variations on a Russian Theme by Frederick L. Schuman, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Stalin's Kampf by M.R. Werner and Joseph Stalin
      10. [+]
        Review Stalin: Czar of All the Russians, by Eugene Lyons by Freda Utley, p. 11 - 1 Review
        Stalin: Czar of All the Russians by Eugene Lyons
      11. Editorial, pp. 12-13
      12. Saturday Review Portrait: Jules Romains by Gilbert Highet, pp. 14-15
      13. [+]
        A Philosophy of the Mean by T.V. Smith, p. 16 - 1 Review
        The Course of American Democratic Thought by Ralph Henry Gabriel
      14. [+]
        Music's Great Lady by Paul Henry Lang, pp. 16-17 - 1 Review
        Clara Schumann: A Romantic Biography by John N. Burk
      15. [+]
        Mr. Hamsun Still Looks to the Soil by Gosta Larrson, p. 18 - 1 Review
        Look Back on Happiness by Knut Hamsun
      16. News Pictures by Robert Disraeli, pp. 19-21
      17. [+]
        Mrs. S. on Mr. S.'s Stage by Amy Loveman, p. 22 - 1 Review
        Mr. Skeffington by Elizabeth von Arnim
      18. [+]
        Olden Times in Wales by Alexander Cowie, pp. 22-23 - 1 Review
        The Swan of Usk by Helen Ashton
      19. [+]
        Souls of Poindexter by Frank Daniel, pp. 24-25 - 1 Review
        God Rides a Gale by James Robert Peery
      20. [+]
        Music for the Millions by David Hall, pp. 26-29 - 1 Review
        Essays in Musical Analysis by Donald Francis Tovey
      21. [+]
        None of His Friends Are Fascists by Harold Lavine, p. 30 - 1 Review
        Conquering the Man in the Street by Ellis Freeman
      22. [+]
        The New Books, p. 31 - 3 Reviews
        An Artist in Manhattan, 1867-1967 by Jerome Myers
        Right Bell by Kenneth Horan
        This Side of Glory by Gwen Bristow
      23. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 32 - 6 Reviews
        The People Ask Death by George Dyer
        Finders Keepers by Geoffrey Homes
        Brandon Is Missing by Dennis Allan
        Witch Wood by Christopher Hale
        Sabotage by Cleve F. Adams
        The Major Has Seven Guests by Constance Wagner
      24. A Reader's Almanac by Virginia Kirkus, pp. 33-36
      25. Double Crostics No. 315, p. 37
      26. Trade Winds, pp. 38-40
    2. [+]
      April 13, 1940 Issue = 22 Articles
      1. [+]
        Parts of a New Civilization by Rexford G. Tugwell, pp. 3-4 - 1 Review
        Magic Motorways by Norman Bel Geddes
      2. [+]
        Review The Art of Living, by Andre Maurois by Stephen Leacock, p. 5 - 1 Review
        The Art of Living by Andre Maurois
      3. Hamlet's Politics by Jacques Barzun, p. 6
      4. [+]
        Circus Boy by Stephen Vincent Benet, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Chad Hanna by Walter D. Edmonds
      5. Editorial, pp. 8-9
      6. [+]
        He Showed Us Our Own Country by Crane Brinton, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Alexis de Tocqueville by J.P. Mayer
      7. [+]
        Literary Crackerjacks by Leonard Bacon, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Not to Mention the War by Elmer Davis
      8. [+]
        Utopia without Fiat by Murdock Pemberton, p. 11 - 1 Review
        Design This Day by Walter Dorwin Teague
      9. [+]
        Lord Dunsany's Magic Carpet by Basil Davenport, p. 12 - 1 Review
        The Story of Mona Sheehy by Lord Edward J.M.D.P. Dunsany
      10. [+]
        Island Backdrop by Gladys Hasty Carroll, p. 12 - 1 Review
        The Floor of Heaven by Sylvia Chatfield Bates
      11. [+]
        He Labored to Understand Men by James Reid Parker, p. 13 - 1 Review
        Benjamin N. Cardozo: American Judge by George S. Hellman
      12. [+]
        Important Thing Is, It Works by M.E. Tracy, p. 14 - 1 Review
        The Politics of Democracy by Pendleton Herring
      13. [+]
        Perspective on the Old South by Jonathan Daniels, p. 15 - 1 Review
        The Keepers of the House by Harry Harrison Kroll
      14. [+]
        Sensibility and Sense by Isabella W. Athey, p. 15 - 1 Review
        Mariana by Sally Salminen
      15. [+]
        The Story of "Woodpecker Jan" by Ben Ray Redman, p. 16 - 1 Review
        The Winds of Spring by Walter Havighurst
      16. Your Literary I.Q. by Howard Collins, p. 16
      17. ï¿½---, p. 17
      18. The Criminal Record, p. 18
      19. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 19-20 - 6 Reviews
        The Story of Art by Regina Shoolman and Charles Slatkin
        And He Sat Among the Ashes by William Schack
        The Customer Is Always Right by Anne Pence Davis
        Titanic by Robert Prechtl
        The Twenty-Fifth Hour by Herbert Best
        Shanghai: City for Sale by Ernest O. Hauser
      20. [+]
        Books into Pictures by Thomas Burton, pp. 21-22 - 5 Reviews
        Abraham Lincoln: The War Years by Carl Sandburg
        The Nazarene by Sholem Asch
        Since Yesterday by Frederick Lewis Allen
        Gentleman Overboard by Herbert Clyde Lewis
        Days of Our Years by Pierre van Paassen
      21. Double Crostics No. 316, p. 23
      22. Trade Winds, p. 24
    3. [+]
      April 20, 1940 Issue = 16 Articles
      1. Old Fable for New Critics by Leonard Bacon, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        Berlin Was Not Birmingham by Lindsay Rogers, p. 5 - 1 Review
        Failure of a Mission by Sir Nevile Henderson
      3. [+]
        The Spice of Mid-West Life by Sterling North, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Kings Row by Henry Bellamann
      4. Your Literary I.Q. by Howard Collins, p. 6
      5. [+]
        Science of Modern Blood-Letting by Margaret Bourke-White and Erskine Caldwell, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Siege by Julien Bryan
      6. Editorial, pp. 8-9
      7. [+]
        Culbertson & Co. by John Scott Mabon, p. 10 - 1 Review
        The Strange Lives of One Man by Ely Culbertson
      8. "Literature" of the Radio by Katherine Best, pp. 11-13
      9. [+]
        The Conscience of an American Businessman by Ben Ray Redman, p. 14 - 1 Review
        Their Own Country by Alice Tisdale Hobart
      10. [+]
        Recollections in Tranquillity by Katharine Scherman, pp. 14-17 - 1 Review
        Morning Shows the Day by Evelyn Bolster
      11. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 18 - 6 Reviews
        Romance in Crimson by Octavus Roy Cohen
        Blue Mask Strikes Again by Anthony Morton
        Friday the 13th by Jefferson Farjeon
        Death Came Dancing by Kathleen Moore Knight
        The Narracong Riddle by August Derleth
        Death Is an Early Riser by John Mason Bigelow
      12. [+]
        Mass-Production in Espionage by Joseph Gollomb, p. 18 - 1 Review
        German Secret Service at Work by Bernard Newman
      13. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 19-20 - 3 Reviews
        I Go Horizontal by Duff Gilfond
        Life in the Ark by Russell David Burge
        On Medlock Farm by Henry Tetlow
      14. [+]
        Negro Family Life by Lee M. Brooks, pp. 21-22 - 1 Review
        The Negro Family in the United States by E. Franklin Frazier
      15. Double Crostics No. 317, p. 23
      16. Trade Winds, p. 24
    4. [+]
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      1. I'm From Missouri by Eugene R. Page, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        "Paris Gazette" by Louis Untermeyer, p. 5 - 1 Review
        Paris Gazette by Lion Feuchtwanger
      3. [+]
        As the Author Sees It Paris Gazette, by Lion Feuchtwanger, p. 5 - 1 Review
        Paris Gazette by Lion Feuchtwanger
      4. [+]
        The Insane Side of Genius by Philip Van Doren Stern, p. 6 - 1 Review
        The Mad Booths of Maryland by Stanley Kimmel
      5. [+]
        Guide to a War by Roger Shaw, p. 6 - 1 Review
        An Atlas-History of the Second Great War by James F. Horrabin
      6. Literary I.Q., p. 7
      7. [+]
        The Bentons in Early America by Harry Thornton Moore, p. 7 - 1 Review
        This Land Is Ours by Louis Zara
      8. Editorial, p. 8
      9. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      10. Pulitzer Prize Nominations, pp. 10-11
      11. [+]
        Orphans of Diplomacy by John Scott Mabon, p. 12 - 1 Review
        The Valley of Exile by L.F. Loveday Prior
      12. [+]
        Gloomy Clown by Richard Lockridge, p. 12 - 1 Review
        The Great Debureau by Francis Kozik
      13. [+]
        What Does Life Hold for Teachers? by Kenneth Horan, p. 13 - 1 Review
        Miss Munday by Sophia Engstrand
      14. [+]
        The British Tramp Trade by Fletcher Pratt, p. 13 - 1 Review
        Watch Below by William McFee
      15. [+]
        Declassed Citizens by James T. Farrell, p. 14 - 1 Review
        The Triumph of Willie Pond by Caroline Slade
      16. [+]
        Germany's Iron Front by Marianne Hauser, p. 14 - 1 Review
        The Lights Go Down by Erika Mann
      17. [+]
        Pursuit of a Stag by Carroll Munro, p. 15 - 1 Review
        The Last Hunt by Maurice Genevoix
      18. [+]
        The Disinherited by Josephine W. Johnson, pp. 16-17 - 1 Review
        Pilgrims on the Earth by Margaret Marchand
      19. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 18 - 3 Reviews
        The Affair of the Circus Queen by Clifford Knight
        Raffles and the Key Man by Barry Perowne
        Murder in Silence by George Selmark
      20. [+]
        Right-Middle Plan by David Cushman Coyle, p. 18 - 1 Review
        The Unbalanced World by Elmer C. Bratt
      21. [+]
        Magnificent Panic by June Hynd, pp. 18-19 - 1 Review
        The Invasion from Mars by Hadley Cantril
      22. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 20-22 - 3 Reviews
        The Private and Public Life of Socrates by Rene Kraus
        Wolves Against the Moon by Julia Cooley Altrocchi
        The Road to Modern Science by H.A. Reason
      23. Double-Crostics No. 318, p. 23
      24. Trade Winds, p. 24
    5. [+]
      May 4, 1940 Issue = 18 Articles
      1. Thomas Beer: Aristocrat of Letters by Lewis Mumford, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        Technicians of Conquest by Garrett Mattingly, p. 5 - 1 Review
        The March of the Barbarians by Harold Lamb
      3. [+]
        Britania: Two Views by Crane Brinton, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Empire on the Seven Seas by James Truslow Adams
      4. [+]
        Review The Sun Never Sets, by Malcolm Muggeridge by George Dangerfield, p. 6 - 1 Review
        The Sun Never Sets by Malcolm Muggeridge
      5. St. Nicholas by Earnest Elmo Calkins, p. 7
      6. Editorial, p. 8
      7. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      8. [+]
        Paris sans Parisians by Harold Stearns, p. 10 - 1 Review
        An American in Paris by Janet Flanner
      9. [+]
        The Ages of Persian Art by George C. Miller, p. 11 - 1 Review
        A Survey of Persian Art by Arthur Upham Pope and Phyllis Ackerman
      10. [+]
        Armenian Horse and Buggy Doctor by Louis Adamic, p. 12 - 1 Review
        A Man Who Found a Country by Dr. A. Nakashian
      11. [+]
        Yankee Queen by Katharine Anthony, pp. 13-15 - 1 Review
        Margaret Fuller, Whetstone of Genius by Mason Wade
      12. [+]
        The Drama of The "Squalus" by Fletcher Pratt, pp. 16-17 - 1 Review
        Blow All Ballast! by Nat A Barrows
      13. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 18 - 4 Reviews
        Head Over Heels in Murder by Ione Sandberg Shriber
        The Snatch by R.L. Goldman
        Give Thanks to Death by Hilea Bailey
        Death in the Sun by Charles Saxby
      14. [+]
        Tweaking the Lion's Tail by Roger Shaw, p. 18 - 1 Review
        Men of Marque by John Philips Cranwell and William H. Crane
      15. [+]
        Art and Beauty, p. 18 - 1 Review
        A History of Esthetics by Katharine Everett Gilbert and Helmut Kuhn
      16. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 19-22 - 5 Reviews
        Persian Painting by Basil Gray
        Wild Geese Calling by Stewart Edward White
        A Passion for Privacy by Louis Paul
        Return to Spring by Elinor Mordaunt
        This Peculiar War by A.W. Zelomek
      17. Double Crostics No. 319, p. 23
      18. Trade Winds, p. 24
    6. [+]
      May 11, 1940 Issue = 18 Articles
      1. Land of Literary Plenty by V.F. Calverton, pp. 3-4
      2. Pulitzer Prize Winners for 1939, p. 5
      3. [+]
        Postscripts on Spain by James Benet, p. 6 - 1 Review
        The Brave and the Blind by Michael Blankfort
      4. [+]
        Review Hotel in Flight, by Nancy Johnstone by Ralph Bates, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Hotel in Flight by Nancy Johnstone
      5. Literary I.Q. No. 15, p. 7
      6. [+]
        Aseptic Miracles in India by Jonathan Daniels, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Night in Bombay by Louis Bromfield
      7. Editorial, p. 8
      8. Letters to Editor, p. 9
      9. [+]
        Mormonism's First Family by Vardis Fisher, p. 10 - 1 Review
        One Who Was Valiant by Clarissa Young Spencer and Mabel Harmer
      10. [+]
        Transition to Hate by Henry B. Kranz, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Convert to Freedom by Eitel Wolf Dobert
      11. [+]
        The American Indian: 1940 by Margaret Bourke-White and Erskine Caldwell, p. 11 - 1 Review
        As Long as the Grass Shall Grow by Oliver La Farge
      12. [+]
        The Obviously Abnormal Mr. Shaw by R. Ellis Roberts, p. 12 - 1 Review
        The Real Bernard Shaw by Maurice D. Colbourne
      13. [+]
        Father of Vermont's Rugged Tradition by Allan Nevins, pp. 13-17 - 1 Review
        Ethan Allen by Stewart H. Holbrook
      14. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 18 - 4 Reviews
        The Case of the Baker Street Irregulars by Anthony Boucher
        And So to Murder by Carter Dickson
        While She Sleeps! by Ethel Lina White
        The Lady Wept Alone by Carolyn Byrd Dawson
      15. [+]
        A Whirlwind with Sunbeams by Frederick A. Pottle, p. 18 - 1 Review
        Coleridge the Talker by Richard W. Armour and Raymond F. Howes
      16. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 19-22 - 5 Reviews
        Saints and Sinners by Charles J. Dutton
        Dream Within Her Hand by Alice Ross Colver and Helen Brand Birdsall
        Shadows on the Valley by Barbara Webster
        The End of the Armistice by G.K. Chesterton
        The World I Breathe by Dylan Thomas
      17. Double-Crostics No. 320, p. 23
      18. Trade Winds, p. 24
    7. [+]
      May 18, 1940 Issue = 21 Articles
      1. Uncle Sam Has a Book by Burton Rascoe, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        America and the War by Elmer Davis, p. 5 - 2 Reviews
        A Foreign Policy for America by Charles A. Beard
        Isolated America by Raymond Leslie Buell
      3. [+]
        Professional Story by Margaret Culkin Banning, p. 6 - 1 Review
        This Is on Me by Katharine Brush
      4. [+]
        New England Odyssey by J.P. Marquand, p. 7 - 1 Review
        A Southerner Discovers New England by Jonathan Daniels
      5. Editorial, p. 8
      6. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      7. Literary I.Q., p. 10
      8. [+]
        Adventure Plus by Linton Wells, p. 10 - 1 Review
        I Married Adventure by Osa Johnson
      9. [+]
        Gloom for the Asking by Ralph Bates, p. 11 - 1 Review
        Fandango by Robert Briffault
      10. [+]
        Germany's New Iron Age by David H. Popper, p. 12 - 1 Review
        Two Thousand and Ten Days of Hitler by Patricia E. Ziemer
      11. [+]
        Review Chin P'ing Mei, by Arthur Waley and Chin P'ing... by Florence Ayscough, pp. 13-15 - 1 Review
        Chin P'ing Mei by Arthur Waley and Chin P'ing Mei
      12. [+]
        Key to the Near East by Henry C. Wolfe, pp. 16-17 - 1 Review
        Turkey at the Straits by James T. Shotwell and Francis Deak
      13. [+]
        More Thoroughly Lost by William Adams, p. 18 - 1 Review
        The Shadow of Atlantis by Colonel A. Braghine
      14. [+]
        "Little War" by R. Ernest Dupuy, p. 18 - 1 Review
        Soldiers in the Sun by William Thaddeus Sexton
      15. [+]
        Songs of the Pacific by Melville J. Herskovits, p. 19 - 1 Review
        Haiti Singing by Harold Courlander
      16. [+]
        "Cosa Desiderata" by Gertrude R.B. Richards, p. 19 - 1 Review
        A Concise History of Italy by Luigi Salvatorelli
      17. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 20 - 4 Reviews
        B as in Banshee by Lawrence Treat
        Holiday Homicide by Rufus King
        Maigret Travels South by Georges Simenon
        Dangerous Young Man by George F. Worts
      18. [+]
        Farewell to Fury by Crane Brinton, p. 20 - 1 Review
        Revolution: Why, How, When? by Robert Hunter
      19. [+]
        The New Books, p. 21 - 3 Reviews
        Since Fifty: Men and Memories, 1922-1938 by William Rothenstein
        Why War? by Nicholas Murray Butler
        Let's Go with Bob Davis by Robert H. Davis
      20. Trade Winds, p. 22
      21. Double-Crostics No. 321, pp. 23-24
    8. [+]
      May 25, 1940 Issue = 28 Articles
      1. Face the War by Max Lerner, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        Two American Rivers by Clark B. Firestone, p. 5 - 1 Review
        The Arkansas by Clyde Brion Davis
      3. [+]
        The Mohawk The Bloody Mohawk, by T. Wood Clarke by Allan Nevins, p. 5 - 1 Review
        The Bloody Mohawk by T. Wood Clarke
      4. [+]
        What Kind of Peace for Europe? by Clarence K. Streit, p. 6 - 2 Reviews
        The Quest for Peace Since the World War by William E. Rappard
        A Federation for Western Europe by W. Ivor Jennings
      5. [+]
        Review The United States of Europe, by Alfred Bingham by Freda Utley, p. 7 - 1 Review
        The United States of Europe by Alfred Bingham
      6. [+]
        Brief Adventure by R. Ellis Roberts, p. 8 - 1 Review
        Robert Louis Stevenson, Teller of Tales by Eulalie Osgood Grover
      7. [+]
        Poet and Public by Gilbert Highet, p. 8 - 1 Review
        Ronsard: Prince of Poets by Morris Bishop
      8. The Perfect Index by Stephen Leacock, p. 9
      9. Editorial, p. 10
      10. Letters to the Editor, p. 11
      11. [+]
        Destruction Plus by R. Ernest Dupuy, p. 12 - 1 Review
        The German Army by Herbert Rosinski
      12. Song by Lloyd Frankenberg, p. 12
      13. Recognition and the Writer by Pearl S. Buck, p. 13
      14. [+]
        Bleak Emotional Bondage by Vardis Fisher, p. 14 - 1 Review
        Glory Spent by Jean Woodman
      15. News Pictures of the Month by Robert Disraeli, p. 15
      16. [+]
        Judas of the Union by Stephen Vincent Benet, p. 16 - 1 Review
        "Mr. Secretary" by Ben Ames Williams, Jr.
      17. [+]
        Daughter of a Lord by Charles David Abbott, pp. 16-17 - 1 Review
        Life as Carola by Joan Grant
      18. [+]
        Trail-Blazing Legislation by Louis Stark, p. 18 - 1 Review
        The National Labor Policy and How It Works by Joseph Rosenfarb
      19. [+]
        The Musical Sun by David Hall, pp. 18-21 - 1 Review
        Music for the Multitude by Sidney Harrison
      20. Literary I.Q., p. 22
      21. [+]
        Obstinate Entity by George Dangerfield, pp. 22-23 - 1 Review
        The Blaze of Noon by Rayner Heppenstall
      22. [+]
        Industries of the Sky by George Palmer Putnam, p. 24 - 1 Review
        The Aviation Business by Elsbeth E. Freudenthal
      23. [+]
        Again the Iron Horse by Roger Burlingame, p. 25 - 1 Review
        The Cavalcade of the Rails by Frank P. Morse
      24. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 26 - 4 Reviews
        The Man Who Could Not Shudder by John Dickson Carr
        Mr. Sandeman Loses His Life by Eugene Healy
        Murder Plus by Carolyn Wells
        The Christine Diamond by Mrs. Belloc Lowndes
      25. [+]
        Giants of the Law by Charles Abrams, p. 26 - 1 Review
        The Bar of Other Days by Joseph S. Auerbach
      26. [+]
        The New Books, p. 27 - 3 Reviews
        Eggs, Beans and Crumpets by P.G. Wodehouse
        Broken Pledges by Philip Gibbs
        From Cowhides to Golden Fleece by Reuben L. Underhill
      27. Trade Winds, p. 28
      28. Double-Crostics No. 322, pp. 29-32
    9. [+]
      June 1, 1940 Issue = 18 Articles
      1. [+]
        How "Bigger" Was Born by Richard Wright, pp. 3-4 - 1 Review
        Native Son by Richard A. Wright
      2. [+]
        Debsian-Populist by John Chamberlain, p. 5 - 1 Review
        If You Don't Weaken by Oscar Ameringer
      3. [+]
        Billet D'Amour by Robert Dell, p. 6 - 1 Review
        France at War by W. Somerset Maugham
      4. [+]
        American in Poland by Gladys Graham, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Polish Profile by Princess Virgilia Sapieha
      5. [+]
        Historical Thriller by Holmes Alexander, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Stars of the Sea by F. Van Wyck Mason
      6. Editorial, p. 8
      7. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      8. British Speech Invaded by Henry L. Mencken, p. 10
      9. [+]
        Rational Pastime by James T. Farrell, p. 11 - 1 Review
        Soft Ball, So What? by Lowell Thomas and Ted Shane
      10. [+]
        Discursive Excursion by Harry A. Franck, p. 11 - 1 Review
        Alaska Holiday by Barrett Willoughby
      11. [+]
        Panorama of Ideas by Sidney Hook, p. 12 - 1 Review
        The Ways of Things by William Pepperell Montague
      12. Memorial Day by Christopher La Farge, p. 13
      13. [+]
        Thomas Hardy by R. Ellis Roberts, pp. 14-17 - 1 Review
        Hardy of Wessex by Carl J. Weber
      14. [+]
        The Criminal Record, pp. 18-19 - 4 Reviews
        The Hangman's Whip by Mignon G. Eberhart
        Murder as an Ornament by Marjorie Boniface
        Dr. Cyclops by Will Garth
        Poison Jasmine by Clyde B. Clason
      15. [+]
        The Country Hobby by Gladys Graham, p. 20 - 1 Review
        A House for the Week Ends by Virginia Kirkus
      16. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 21-22 - 3 Reviews
        Women Will Be Doctors by Hannah Lees
        Mother of the Smiths by Lorraine Carr
        The Collected Poems of A. E. Housman by A.E. Housman
      17. Double-Crostics No. 323, p. 23
      18. Trade Winds, p. 24
    10. [+]
      June 8, 1940 Issue = 21 Articles
      1. Writers of the Eighties by Van Wyck Brooks, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        American Humanity on Parade by Louis Adamic, p. 5 - 1 Review
        The People Talk by Benjamin Appel
      3. [+]
        Sidelights on the Southwest by Harry Thornton Moore, p. 5 - 1 Review
        Figures in a Landscape by Paul Horgan
      4. [+]
        Of Human Loneliness by Ben Ray Redman, p. 6 - 1 Review
        The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers
      5. [+]
        Florida Scrub Folk by Jonathan Daniels, p. 6 - 1 Review
        When the Whippoorwill... by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
      6. Your Literary I.Q., p. 7
      7. [+]
        Paul de Kruif's War by Mabel S. Ulrich, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Health is Wealth by Paul de Kruif
      8. Editorial by Leonard Bacon, p. 8
      9. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      10. [+]
        Rosy Specs, Blue Picture by Frederick Lewis Allen, p. 10 - 1 Review
        The Fat Years and the Lean by Bruce Minton and John Stuart
      11. Radio and Reading by Alberta Curtis, pp. 11-13
      12. [+]
        Yeats: Master of Diction by W.H. Auden, p. 14 - 1 Review
        Last Poems and Plays by W.B. Yeats and James Pethica
      13. [+]
        The Revolt Against Marx by Selden Rodman, p. 15 - 4 Reviews
        Planets and Angels by Eugene Jolas
        The White Stranger by Kimball Flaccus
        The Man Coming Toward You by Oscar Williams
        First Manifesto by Thomas McGrath
      14. [+]
        Lady Sherlock's Story by Basil Davenport, p. 16 - 1 Review
        Aunt Beardie by Joseph Shearing
      15. [+]
        Prize Parson by Edwin Daniels, pp. 17-19 - 1 Review
        Forty Years a Country Preacher by George B. Gilbert
      16. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 20 - 4 Reviews
        Murder at the School House by A.B. Cunningham
        Streamlined Murder by Sue MacVeigh
        The Man in the Moonlight by Helen McCloy
        Wives to Burn by Lawrence G. Blochman
      17. [+]
        The New Books, p. 20 - 2 Reviews
        Kind Are Her Answers by Mary Renault
        Unser Kampf: Our Struggle by Sir Richard Acland
      18. [+]
        Books Into Pictures, p. 21 - 1 Review
        Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
      19. The Compleat Collector, p. 22
      20. Double-Crostics No. 324, p. 23
      21. Trade Winds, p. 24
    11. [+]
      June 15, 1940 Issue = 23 Articles
      1. French Literature and the War by Justin O'Brien, pp. 3-4
      2. Your Literary I.Q., p. 5
      3. [+]
        Perigee to Apogee by Harry Thornton Moore, p. 5 - 1 Review
        World's End by Upton Sinclair
      4. [+]
        Supporting Cast in Acadia by Stephen Vincent Benet, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Quietly My Captain Waits by Evelyn Eaton
      5. [+]
        Poetry of the Earth, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Trees of Heaven by Jesse Stuart
      6. [+]
        Variegated Neighbor by James Frederick Green, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Canada: America's Problem by John MacCormac
      7. [+]
        White Book of Spain by Jay Allen, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Freedom's Battle by Julio Alvarez del Vayo
      8. Editorial, p. 8
      9. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      10. [+]
        Family and Business by Gladys Graham, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Full Meridian by Naomi Jacob
      11. [+]
        Rilke's 'Open World' by Marianne Hauser, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Wartime Letters, 1914-1921 by Rainer Maria Rilke
      12. [+]
        A "Brave New World," 2040 A.D. by Fletcher Pratt, p. 11 - 1 Review
        The First to Awaken by Granville Hicks and Richard M. Bennett
      13. [+]
        Bones of Biology by Donald Culross Peattie, p. 11 - 1 Review
        Down to Earth by Alan Devoe
      14. The Mind of a Liberal by Waldo Frank, pp. 12-14
      15. [+]
        Great Idea by Talbot Mundy, p. 15 - 1 Review
        A Star Fell by Sylvia Leonora Brett Brooke
      16. Road Atlases in Review by Susan Crane, p. 16
      17. [+]
        Crack-up of the International Set by Helen Hoffman and Ruth Hoffman, p. 17 - 1 Review
        My Hey Day by Princess Tulip Murphy and Virginia Faulkner
      18. [+]
        Coleridge's Geraldine by George McLean Harper, pp. 17-18 - 1 Review
        The Road to Tryermaine by Arthur H. Nethercot
      19. [+]
        Librarian's Guide by Harry M. Lydenberg, p. 19 - 1 Review
        The Practice of Book Selection by Louis Round Wilson
      20. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 20 - 5 Reviews
        Murder on the Face of It by Emma Lou Fetta
        Three Names for Murder by Harriette Campbell
        Where There's a Will by Rex Stout
        Sixty-Nine Diamonds by Jeremy Lord
        Vintage Murder by Ngaio Marsh
      21. [+]
        The New Books, p. 20 - 4 Reviews
        Ring Horse by Thomas W. Duncan
        Brother, Here's a Man by Kim Beattie
        Unconquered Enemy by Boris Sokoloff, M.D.
        Ballad Makin' in the Mountains of Kentucky by Jean Thomas
      22. Double-Crostics No. 325, pp. 21-23
      23. Trade Winds, p. 24
    12. [+]
      June 22, 1940 Issue = 24 Articles
      1. End of an Era by Van Wyck Brooks, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        Road to War, Part III by Allen W. Dulles, p. 5 - 1 Review
        Why Europe Fights by Walter Millis
      3. [+]
        The Art of Hagiography by Ben Ray Redman, p. 6 - 1 Review
        The Star of Satan by Georges Bernanos
      4. [+]
        Communal Revolt by Isabella W. Athey, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Joy of Man's Desiring by Jean Giono
      5. [+]
        The Surviving Empire by Crane Brinton, p. 7 - 2 Reviews
        Our British Empire: Its Structure, Its History, Its Strength by Stephen Leacock
        Great Britain: An Empire in Transition by Albert Viton
      6. Editorial, p. 8
      7. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      8. The Compleat Collector, p. 10
      9. [+]
        Glamour Girl of the Nineties by Fairfax Downey, p. 11 - 1 Review
        Lillian Russell by Parker Morell
      10. [+]
        Girlhood in Baltimore by Rosemary Carr Benet, p. 11 - 1 Review
        A Quaker Childhood, 1871-1888 by Helen Thomas Flexner
      11. [+]
        The Golden Amber Tradition by Basil Davenport, p. 12 - 1 Review
        Before Lunch by Angela Thirkell
      12. [+]
        Apostrophe to Evil by David Boardman, p. 12 - 1 Review
        Be Thou the Bride by Christine Weston
      13. Harlem Literati in the Twenties by Langston Hughes, pp. 13-14
      14. [+]
        The Land That Lingers by Charles W. Ferguson, p. 15 - 1 Review
        Our Southwest by Erna Fergusson
      15. [+]
        Something Special in Missouria by Clyde Brion Davis, pp. 15-16 - 1 Review
        An Ozark Anthology by Vance Randolph
      16. Your Literary I.Q., p. 17
      17. [+]
        Rediscovering the Arctic by Marie Ahnighito Peary, p. 17 - 1 Review
        Modern Arctic Exploration by Gunnar Seidenfaden
      18. [+]
        I Shall Always Remember... by Linton Wells, p. 18 - 1 Review
        Ten Years in the Congo by William Ellsworth Davis
      19. [+]
        A Solution Waiting by Eli Ginzberg, p. 18 - 1 Review
        Youth---Millions Too Many? by Bruce Lee Melvin
      20. [+]
        The New Books, p. 19 - 5 Reviews
        Tamarack by Edith Roberts
        Doc's Wife by Faye Cashatt Lewis
        Class and American Sociology by Charles Hunt Page
        The New Architecture by Albert Roth
        Islands of Adventure by Karl Baarslag
      21. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 20 - 4 Reviews
        Death Rattle by Alfred Betts Caldwell
        A Comedy of Terrors by Michael Innes
        Murder in the Blackout by J. Russell Warren
        Mr. Westerby Missing by Miles Burton
      22. Records in Review, pp. 21-22
      23. Double-Crostics No. 326, p. 23
      24. Trade Winds, p. 24
    13. [+]
      June 29, 1940 Issue = 24 Articles
      1. Our Widening American Culture by Frederick Lewis Allen, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        War on the State of Mind by Elmer Davis, p. 5 - 1 Review
        The Strategy of Terror by Edmond Taylor
      3. Your Literary I.Q., p. 6
      4. [+]
        New Wrinkle in Autobiography by Leonard Bacon, p. 6 - 1 Review
        As I Remember Him by Hans Zinsser
      5. France Will Live Again by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, p. 7
      6. Editorial, p. 8
      7. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      8. [+]
        Mr. Hitler's "New Sparta" by Shepard Stone, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Into the Darkness by Lothrop Stoddard
      9. [+]
        The American Ineffectual by Jonathan Daniels, p. 11 - 1 Review
        Ask Me Tomorrow by James Gould Cozzens
      10. [+]
        The Burdett Saga by Richard A. Cordell, p. 11 - 1 Review
        From What Dark Roots by Francine Findley
      11. [+]
        Matter of Dimension by Palmer Harman, p. 12 - 1 Review
        Too Big by Morris L. Ernst
      12. [+]
        Debunking the Firefly by George Russell Harrison, p. 12 - 1 Review
        Living Light by E. Newton Harvey
      13. Our Borrowed Vocabulary by H.L. Mencken, p. 13
      14. [+]
        Restless Ulysses by Linton Wells, p. 14 - 1 Review
        Richard Halliburton: His Story of His Life's Adventure by Richard Halliburton
      15. [+]
        How to Win Friends by Oliver Larkin, pp. 14-17 - 1 Review
        The Life of a Painter by John Lavery
      16. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 18 - 5 Reviews
        Murder at Lilac Cottage by John Rhode
        Some Like It Gory by John Kobler
        The Bones of Napoleon by James Warner Bellah
        Our First Murder by Torrey Chanslor
        The Poison Fly Murder by Harriet Rutland
      17. [+]
        Science and Society by Jacques Barzun, p. 18 - 1 Review
        Human Nature Writ Large by Frederick Creedy
      18. [+]
        Titanic Genius by Gilbert Highet, p. 19 - 1 Review
        Aeschylus: The Creator of Tragedy by Gilbert Murray
      19. [+]
        Wars That Counted by Roger Shaw, p. 19 - 1 Review
        Decisive Battles by J.F.C. Fuller
      20. [+]
        Attempt at Brass Tacks by Albert Deutsch, p. 20 - 1 Review
        Men Against Madness by Lowell S. Selling
      21. [+]
        From CO2 to Hemophilia by Homer W. Smith, p. 20 - 1 Review
        Adventures of a Biologist by J.B.S. Haldane
      22. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 21-22 - 3 Reviews
        Legacy by Charles Bonner
        Shadows on the Valley by Barbara Webster
        Alaska Challenge by Bill Albee and Ruth Albee
      23. Double-Crostics No. 327, p. 23
      24. Trade Winds, p. 24
  3. [+]
    Issues of Jul.-Sep. 1940 = 13 Issues, 283 Articles
    1. [+]
      July 6, 1940 Issue = 20 Articles
      1. The Fighting Decade by Granville Hicks, pp. 3-5
      2. Literary I.Q., p. 6
      3. [+]
        Van Looning the Pacific by Bruno Lasker, p. 6 - 1 Review
        The Story of the Pacific by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
      4. [+]
        The Poet as Traveler by Louis Untermeyer, p. 7 - 5 Reviews
        An American in Augustland by Elliott Coleman
        Wait for These Things by George Abbe
        This Is Our Own by Marie de L. Welch
        Collected Poems: 1917-1939 by Edward Davison
        Cafes and Cathedrals by C.F. Macintyre
      5. Editorial, p. 8
      6. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      7. [+]
        He Set the Forest to Music by Paul Henry Lang, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Enchanted Wanderer by Lucy Poate Stebbins and Richard Poate Stebbins, ...
      8. [+]
        Between the Musical Lines by Katharine Scherman, p. 10 - 1 Review
        The Critical Composer by Irving Kolodin
      9. How to Mark a Book by Mortimer J. Adler, pp. 11-12
      10. [+]
        Boom City of the Eighties by Richard A. Cordell, p. 13 - 1 Review
        Sioux City by J. Hyatt Downing
      11. [+]
        Puritan and Hedonist by Mabel S. Ulrich, p. 13 - 1 Review
        The Wind of Circumstance by Harold Dearden
      12. [+]
        Wheat Farming in a Void by Paul B. Sears, p. 14 - 1 Review
        An Empire of Dust by Lawrence Svobida
      13. [+]
        Wanderings of the Norse by Earl P. Hanson, pp. 15-17 - 1 Review
        Westward from Vinland by Hjalmar R. Holand
      14. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 18 - 3 Reviews
        The Man with the Crimson Box by Harry Stephen Keeler
        The Corpse with Knee Action by B.T. Maylon
        As Good as Murdered by James O'Hanlon
      15. [+]
        "Sacred Temple of Love" by V.F. Calverton, p. 18 - 1 Review
        Modern Marriage by Moses Jung
      16. [+]
        They Flew for the Army by Major L.H. Nason, p. 19 - 1 Review
        Up and At 'Em by Harold Evans Hartney
      17. [+]
        The Case for Reason by Abram L. Sachar, p. 19 - 1 Review
        The Jewish Contribution to Civilization by Cecil Roth
      18. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 20-22 - 7 Reviews
        Press Pass by Kathleen Ann Smallzried
        First Port of Call by Elizabeth Jordan
        Spring Offensive by Herbert Clyde Lewis
        Masks and Faces by Phyllis Bottome
        Rehearsal by Fredericka Faxon
        My Finnish Diary by Walter M. Citrine
        Good Health and Bad Medicine by Harold Aaron, M.D.
      19. Double-Crostics No. 328, p. 23
      20. Trade Winds, p. 24
    2. [+]
      July 13, 1940 Issue = 19 Articles
      1. Henry James of Boston by Van Wyck Brooks, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        Old Salt of the Tortoise Tavern by Charlton Ogburn, Jr., p. 5 - 1 Review
        Doctor Dogbody's Leg by James Norman Hall
      3. [+]
        New York Women by Jonathan Daniels, p. 5 - 1 Review
        Through the House Door by Helen Hull
      4. [+]
        Gertrude Stein's France by Harold E. Stearns, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Paris France by Gertrude Stein
      5. Memorandum from N. Machiavelli, p. 7
      6. Editorial, p. 8
      7. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      8. [+]
        Honest and Passionate by N.L. Rothman, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Anya by Joy Davidman
      9. [+]
        The Spirit of Hsieh Pingying by Florence Ayscough, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Girl Rebel by Ping-Ying Hsieh
      10. [+]
        The Meaning of the West by Lamar Middleton, p. 11 - 1 Review
        New World Challenge to Imperialism by M.E. Tracy
      11. Your Literary I.Q., p. 12
      12. [+]
        The Notion That Will Not Down by Jacques Barzun, p. 12 - 1 Review
        Lest Freedom Fail by Nathan Ayer Smyth
      13. The Real Fiction in Western Stories by Hurst Julian, pp. 13-17
      14. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 18 - 3 Reviews
        The Grassleyes Mystery by E. Phillips Oppenheim
        I Don't Like Cats by Lindsay Anson
        Death Demands an Audience by Helen Reilly
      15. [+]
        Party Business by Louis Filler, p. 18 - 1 Review
        The Underground Stream by Albert Maltz
      16. [+]
        The Lore of Hawaii by Padraic Colum, p. 19 - 1 Review
        Hawaiian Mythology by Martha W. Beckwith
      17. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 20-22 - 7 Reviews
        The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis
        No Silver Bells by Phyllis Hambledon
        Celibate at Twilight by John Mosher
        The Salvation of Pisco Gabar, and Other Stories by Geoffrey Household
        Forest Outings by Russell Lord
        Your Allergy and What to Do About It by June B. Cohen and Milton B. Cohen
        Horizon Hunter by Harrison Forman
      18. Double-Crostics No. 329, p. 23
      19. Trade Winds, p. 24
    3. [+]
      July 20, 1940 Issue = 19 Articles
      1. The American Presidency by Harold J. Laski, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        Power Politics and the Soviet by John W. Wheeler-Bennett, p. 5 - 1 Review
        The Imperial Soviets by Henry C. Wolfe
      3. [+]
        Incomplete Haven by V.F.Calverton, p. 6 - 1 Review
        By the Waters of Babylon by Robert Neumann
      4. [+]
        Cackling in the Cloisters by N.L. Rothman, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Geese in the Forum by Lawrence Edward Watkin
      5. [+]
        New Sights and New Sounds by Upton Close, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Escape with Me! by Osbert Sitwell
      6. Editorial, p. 8
      7. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      8. [+]
        Wisconsin Local Color by James Gray, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Country Growth by August Derleth
      9. [+]
        Exquisite and Stern by Louis Untermeyer, p. 10 - 1 Review
        The Spirit Watches by Ruth Pitter
      10. Pale Caste of Thought by Leonard Bacon, pp. 11-12
      11. Your Literary I.Q., p. 13
      12. [+]
        Radio's New Dimension by Gilbert Seldes, p. 14 - 1 Review
        We Present Television by John Porterfield and Kay Reynolds
      13. [+]
        Victory for Their Pains by Basil Davenport, pp. 14-17 - 1 Review
        The Dark Stranger by Constance W. Dodge
      14. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 18 - 4 Reviews
        The Death of Lord Haw Haw by Brett Rutledge
        Murder in Wardour Street by Nigel Morland
        Inquest by Percival Wilde
        Mr. Marlow Stops for Brandy by John Bentley
      15. [+]
        Suffrage Leader by Dorothy Straus, p. 19 - 1 Review
        Challenging Years by Harriot Stanton Blatch and Alma Lutz
      16. [+]
        Fossil Finder by John Hodgdon Bradley, p. 19 - 1 Review
        O.C. Marsh---Pioneer in Paleontology by Charles Schuchert and Clara M. LeVene
      17. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 20-21 - 6 Reviews
        The Ship's Surgeon's Yarn, and Other Stories by Francis Brett Young
        When Doctors Disagree by Franken Meloney
        The Unquiet Field by Beatrice Kean Seymour
        A New England Sampler by Eleanor Early
        Extra-Sensory Perception After Sixty Years by J. Gaither Pratt, Joseph Banks Rhine, and Burke M. Smith, ...
        White Water and Black Magic by Richard C. Gill
      18. Trade Winds, p. 22
      19. Double-Crostics No. 330, pp. 23-24
    4. [+]
      July 27, 1940 Issue = 21 Articles
      1. Afterglow in New England by Van Wyck Brooks, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        Companion to Columbus by Ben Ray Redman, p. 5 - 1 Review
        To the Indies by C.S. Forester
      3. [+]
        Light on the Mysterious by Leonard Bacon, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Mathematics and the Imagination by Edward Kasner and James Roy Newman
      4. [+]
        English Maupassant by William Rose Benet, p. 6 - 1 Review
        The Mixture as Before by W. Somerset Maugham
      5. [+]
        Complacency and the Public Polls by T.V. Smith, p. 7 - 1 Review
        The Pulse of Democracy by George Gallup and Saul Forbes Rae
      6. Editorial, p. 8
      7. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      8. [+]
        Respect for a Goddess by George Dangerfield, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Maid No More by Helen Simpson
      9. [+]
        A Baptist Cassandra by Richard A. Cordell, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Gold for My Bride by Norman Collins
      10. New Letters By Anton Chekhov by Alexander Bakshy, pp. 11-12
      11. Your Literary I.Q., pp. 13-15
      12. [+]
        Bibliophile's Pilgrimage by R. Ellis Roberts, p. 16 - 1 Review
        A Bookseller Looks Back by James Stoddart Bain
      13. [+]
        Backstage in Medicine by Mabel S. Ulrich, M.D., p. 16 - 1 Review
        Behind the Surgeon's Mask by James Harpole
      14. [+]
        Adventures on the Plains by Allan Nevins, p. 17 - 1 Review
        Tixier's Travels on the Osage Prairies by John Francis McDermott and Victor Tixier
      15. [+]
        Education Bound by John Palmer Gavit, p. 18 - 2 Reviews
        So You're Going to College by Clarence E. Lovejoy
        She's Off to College by Gulielma Fell Alsop and Mary Frances McBride
      16. [+]
        Mighty Hunters by Linton Wells, p. 18 - 1 Review
        Dark Memory by Jonathan Latimer
      17. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 19-20 - 8 Reviews
        The Vantage Point by Hilda Morris
        Attack! by Leland Jamieson
        Way of Life by Muriel Daly
        French Chivalry by Sidney Painter
        Constitutionalism, Ancient and Modern by Charles Howard McIlwain
        The World Over in 1939 by Leon Bryce Bloch and Charles Angoff
        General Cargo by A.P. Herbert
        Playing with Lightning by Kary B. McEachron and Kenneth G. Patrick
      18. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 21 - 3 Reviews
        Line-Up by John Rhode
        Mr. Fortune Here by Henry C. Bailey
        Who's Afraid? by Elisabeth Sanxay Holding
      19. Records in Review by Edward T. Canby, pp. 21-22
      20. Double-Crostics No. 331, p. 23
      21. Trade Winds, p. 24
    5. [+]
      August 3, 1940 Issue = 25 Articles
      1. [+]
        A Strong Man in the White House? by Allan Nevins, p. 5 - 1 Review
        The American Presidency by Harold J. Laski
      2. [+]
        Marxist-Keynesist Blend by Max Lerner, p. 6 - 1 Review
        A Programme for Progress by John Strachey
      3. Your Literary I.Q., p. 7
      4. [+]
        Norwegian Novel of the 1790's by Richard A. Cordell, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Madame Dorthea by Sigrid Undset
      5. Psalm for Today by Ralph Friedrich, p. 8
      6. Editorial, pp. 8-9
      7. Letters to the Editor, p. 10
      8. Vocabulary Glorification by H.L. Mencken, p. 11
      9. [+]
        Not Quite a Queen by Charles David Abbott, p. 11 - 1 Review
        The Stranger in the House by Howard Coxe
      10. [+]
        Story of Strasser by Wythe Williams, pp. 12-13 - 1 Review
        Nemesis? by Douglas Reed
      11. [+]
        Foreign Affairs Annual by Edward Mead Earle, p. 14 - 1 Review
        The United States in World Affairs, 1939 by Whitney H. Shepardson and William O. Scroggs
      12. [+]
        Tabloid Biographies by Linton Wells, p. 14 - 1 Review
        Rulers of the World by Maurice Crain
      13. [+]
        The A.Y.C. in U.S. by Raymond G. Fuller, p. 15 - 1 Review
        American Youth Today by Leslie A. Gould
      14. [+]
        Heroes Behind the R by Mabel S. Ulrich, M.D., p. 16 - 1 Review
        American Doctors of Destiny by Frank J. Jirka
      15. [+]
        Romance at Ease by Rosemary Carr Benet, p. 16 - 1 Review
        Lovers' Meeting by Eleanor Lady Smith
      16. [+]
        Balance Sheet of Nazi Economics by Robert Strausz-Hupe, p. 17 - 1 Review
        German Economy, 1870-1940 by Gustav Stolper
      17. [+]
        "Diplomacy of Expansion" by James Truslow Adams, p. 18 - 1 Review
        Our Rising Empire, 1763-1803 by Arthur Burr Darling
      18. [+]
        Chronicler of Respectability by Joseph R. Strayer, p. 18 - 1 Review
        The Letters of John Chamberlain by Norman Egbert McClure and John Chamberlain
      19. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 19 - 4 Reviews
        Old Lover's Ghost by Leslie Ford
        The Left Leg by Alice Tilton
        I Heard the Death Bell by Charlotte Murray Russell
        The Murder at the Munition Works by G.D.H. Cole and Margaret Cole
      20. [+]
        Education and Citizenship by R.L. West, p. 19 - 1 Review
        Group Education for a Democracy by William Heard Kilpatrick
      21. [+]
        Painter-Democrat by Oliver Larkin, p. 20 - 1 Review
        George Caleb Bingham of Missouri by Albert Christ-Janer
      22. [+]
        A Triumph for Labor by Palmer Harman, p. 20 - 1 Review
        "As Steel Goes..." by Robert R.R. Brooks
      23. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 21-22 - 9 Reviews
        The English Air by Dorothy Emily Stevenson
        Candles in the Night by Joseph L. Baron
        Too Dear for My Possessing by Pamela Hansford Johnson
        The Bird in the Tree by Elizabeth Goudge
        The Long Watch in England by Eugene Lohrke and Arline Lohrke
        Public Control of Business by Harlan Fiske Stone, Alfred Lief, and Leif Alfred, ...
        Education and Economic Well-Being in American Democracy
        Heroes of the Air by Chelsea C. Fraser
        Fletcher Pratt's Naval War Game by Fletcher Pratt
      24. Double-Crostics No. 332, p. 23
      25. Trade Winds, p. 24
    6. [+]
      August 10, 1940 Issue = 21 Articles
      1. Poetry Today in America by William Rose Benet, pp. 3-4
      2. Poetry and Subject Matter by Mark Van Doren, p. 5
      3. Here Is the World by Raymond Holden, p. 6
      4. Adulation and the Artist by C.P. Lee, p. 7
      5. May-June, 1940 by Robinson Jeffers, p. 8
      6. Editorial, p. 8
      7. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      8. [+]
        Poets New and Old by Dudley Fitts, p. 10 - 1 Review
        The Poet in New York, and Other Poems by Federico Garcia Lorca
      9. The Language of Muriel Rukeyser by Louis Untermeyer, p. 11
      10. The Time Is Now by Max Lerner, p. 12
      11. Old Rhyme by Phyllis McGinley, p. 13
      12. Now in the Night by Joseph Auslander, p. 14
      13. Poetry and Democracy by Selden Rodman, pp. 14-15
      14. Lines for a Little House by Thomas Caldecot Chubb, p. 16
      15. War of Nerves by Leonard Bacon, p. 17
      16. [+]
        The Criminal Record, pp. 18-19 - 4 Reviews
        Murder Draws a Line by Willetta Ann Barber and R.F. Schabelitz
        Verdict of Twelve by Raymond W. Postgate
        The Case of the Frightened Fish by William Du Bois
        Murder on the Pacific by David Knox Patton
      17. I Have Seen the Mountains by Horace Gregory, p. 20
      18. [+]
        Variorum Chaucer by Robert K. Root, pp. 20-21 - 1 Review
        The Text of the Canterbury Tales by John M. Manly, Edith Rickert, and Chaucer
      19. Trade Winds, p. 22
      20. [+]
        Morality and Verse by Dudley Fitts, p. 22 - 1 Review
        The Spiritual Aspects of New Poetry by Amos N. Wilder
      21. Double-Crostic No. 333, pp. 23-24
    7. [+]
      August 17, 1940 Issue = 24 Articles
      1. The Human Season by Howard Mumford Jones, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        The Secret of Nazi Triumphs by Vera Micheles Dean, p. 5 - 1 Review
        They Wanted War by Otto D. Tolischus
      3. [+]
        An Agrarian Utopia by Fletcher Pratt, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Rosscommon by Charles Allen Smart
      4. [+]
        On the Lunatic Fringe, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Look Who's Talking! by S.J. Perelman
      5. [+]
        Mississippi Life Today by Edwin L. Sabin, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Big River to Cross by Ben Lucien Burman
      6. Editorial, p. 8
      7. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      8. [+]
        Elizabethan Gentry by Basil Davenport, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Late Harvest by Olive B. White
      9. [+]
        Serious Melodrama by George Dangerfield, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Tale of Three Cities by D.L. Murray
      10. [+]
        Heifers in Brabant by Phil Stong, p. 11 - 1 Review
        Dutch Vet by A. Roothaert
      11. [+]
        A Novel of Politics, p. 11 - 1 Review
        Tassels on Her Boots by Arthur Train
      12. [+]
        A World of Change by Raymond G. Fuller, p. 12 - 1 Review
        The Bridge: My Own Story by Ernest Poole
      13. [+]
        Happy Annals by Charles McD. Puckette, p. 12 - 1 Review
        Country Editor by Henry Beetle Hough
      14. Some Postscripts to Oscar Wilde by Frances Winwar, pp. 13-14
      15. [+]
        Our Atmosphere, p. 15 - 1 Review
        The Air and Its Mysteries by C.M. Botley
      16. [+]
        A Tale of Mexico by Charlton Ogburn, Jr., pp. 16-17 - 1 Review
        The Way to Santiago by Arthur Calder-Marshall
      17. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 18 - 4 Reviews
        Let Him Die by E.H. Clements
        Papa Pontivy and the Maginot Murder by Bernard Newman
        The Ghost Plane by Arthur Stringer
        No Sign of Murder by Wallace Reed
      18. [+]
        Romantic Profession, p. 18 - 1 Review
        When the Ships Came in by Jack Lawrence
      19. [+]
        Indian Pictographs by Elizabeth S. Sergeant, p. 18 - 1 Review
        Frijoles Canyon Pictographs by Gustave Baumann
      20. [+]
        Neighbor to the South by Ernest Gruening, p. 19 - 1 Review
        The Mexican Earth by Todd Downing
      21. [+]
        Prisoners in Russia by Charles Malamuth, p. 19 - 1 Review
        The Guillotine at Work by G.P. Maximoff
      22. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 20-22 - 9 Reviews
        Memories of a Child of Vassar by Cornelia M. Raymond
        Broadsides by R.W. Daly
        False Witness by Irving Stone
        Run of the Stars by Dora Aydelotte
        This Dynasty of Doctors by Rhoda Truax
        On the Trail of the Eight-Pointed Cross by Elizabeth Wheeler Schermerhorn
        Housing in Scandinavia: Urban and Rural by John Graham, Jr.
        The Wandering Lake by Sven Hedin
        A Doctor's Holiday in Iran by Rosalie Slaughter Morton
      23. Double-Crostics, p. 23
      24. Trade Winds, p. 24
    8. [+]
      August 24, 1940 Issue = 22 Articles
      1. History and the Historical Novel by Arthur Bernon Tourtellot, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        Mann's Measurement of Genius by Paul Rosenfeld, p. 5 - 1 Review
        The Beloved Returns by Thomas Mann
      3. [+]
        Brave Statesman by James Frederick Green, p. 6 - 1 Review
        "I Built a Temple for Peace" by Edward B. Hitchcock
      4. [+]
        Economist-Artist by Paul H. Douglas, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Idle Money, Idle Men by Stuart Chase
      5. [+]
        Adult Novelist by R. Ellis Roberts, p. 7 - 1 Review
        The Pool of Vishnu by L.H. Myers
      6. Editorial, p. 8
      7. Seasons by Harold Trowbridge Pulsifer, p. 8
      8. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      9. [+]
        "Beautiful Land" by Rose Henderson, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Hawkeyes: A Biography of the State of Iowa by Phil Stong
      10. [+]
        Law for the Layman by James Reid Parker, p. 10 - 2 Reviews
        You Be the Judge by Ernest R. Mortenson
        Look at the Law by Percival E. Jackson
      11. [+]
        A Mixed Bag of Lawrenciana by Stuart Lillico, p. 11 - 1 Review
        Oriental Assembly by T.E. Lawrence and A.W. Lawrence
      12. [+]
        Social History by Cornelius Weygandt, pp. 12-13 - 1 Review
        The Delaware by Harry Emerson Wildes
      13. [+]
        Building as an Art by Sheldon Cheney, p. 14 - 1 Review
        Architecture Through the Ages by Talbot Hamlin
      14. [+]
        Heroic Fun by Charles David Abbott, p. 15 - 1 Review
        The Terror of Peru by Meade Minnigerode
      15. [+]
        Boy and Girl by Edwin L. Sabin, p. 15 - 1 Review
        The Canyon by Peter Viertel
      16. [+]
        An Abbe Odyssey by Rosemary Carr Benet, pp. 15-17 - 1 Review
        No Place Like Home by Patience Abbe, Richard Abbe, and Johnny Abbe
      17. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 18 - 4 Reviews
        Mayhem in B-Flat by Elliot Paul
        She'll Be Dead by Morning by Dana Chambers
        They Hunted a Fox by Alice Campbell
        The Laughing Fox by Frank Gruber
      18. [+]
        Russian Campaigns by David H. Popper, p. 18 - 1 Review
        Perish by the Sword by R. Ernest Dupuy
      19. [+]
        National Defense by R. Ernest Dupuy, p. 18 - 1 Review
        The Army of the United States
      20. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 19-20 - 8 Reviews
        Rain Before Seven by John August
        When in the Course by Harry Leon Wilson
        Something Special by Faith Baldwin
        Life in the Rocky Mountains by Warren Angus Ferris and Paul C. Phillips
        Where Are the Customers' Yachts? by Fred Schwed, Jr.
        The Nature of the World by W.T. Stace
        The New Noah's Ark by Andre Demaison
        A Unicorn in the Bahamas by Rosita Forbes
      21. Trade Winds, pp. 21-22
      22. Double-Crostics No. 335, pp. 23-24
    9. [+]
      August 31, 1940 Issue = 23 Articles
      1. The American Tradition in Literature by Henry Seidel Canby, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        John Buchan's "Great Loves" by Oswald Garrison Villard, p. 5 - 1 Review
        Pilgrim's Way---An Essay in Recollection by John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir
      3. [+]
        Painful World by George Dangerfield, p. 6 - 1 Review
        The Fire and the Wood by R.C. Hutchinson
      4. Your Literary I.Q. by Howard Collins, p. 6
      5. [+]
        "Tract for the Times" by Irwin Edman, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Faith for Living by Lewis Mumford
      6. Editorial, p. 8
      7. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      8. [+]
        The Techniques of Reconstruction by John Dewey, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Man and Society in an Age of Reconstruction by Karl Mannheim
      9. [+]
        Sheridan as a Dramatist by John Anderson, pp. 10-11 - 1 Review
        Here Lies Richard Brinsley Sheridan by Kenelon Foss
      10. [+]
        The Negro Intellectual by Oswald Garrison Villard, p. 12 - 1 Review
        The Big Sea: An Autobiography by Langston Hughes
      11. [+]
        Horsey Country by Fairfax Downey, p. 13 - 1 Review
        Such Was Saratoga by Hugh Bradley
      12. [+]
        Jersey's Golden Strand by James A. Nelson, p. 13 - 1 Review
        Entertaining a Nation: The Career of Long Branch by Reynolds A. Sweetland and Joseph Sugarman, Jr., ...
      13. [+]
        Medical Raconteur by Mabel S. Ulrich, M.D., p. 14 - 1 Review
        In Search of Complications by Eugene de Savitsch
      14. [+]
        Human Actor and Writer by N.L. Rothman, pp. 14-16 - 1 Review
        Moon Tide by Willard Robertson
      15. [+]
        If War Comes by Percy W. Bidwell, p. 17 - 2 Reviews
        M-Day by Donald Edward Keyhoe
        M-Day and What It Means to You by Leo M. Cherne
      16. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 18 - 5 Reviews
        The Four Defences by J.J. Connington
        The Spider and the Fly by R.A.J. Walling
        Maigret Abroad by Georges Simenon
        We Will Meet Again by John Hawkins and Ward Hawkins
        The Uncomplaining Corpses by Brett Halliday
      17. [+]
        Republic vs. Democracy by Raymond G. Fuller, p. 18 - 1 Review
        Two Frontiers of Freedom by John Corbin
      18. [+]
        Britain Before 1776 by H.I. Priestley, p. 19 - 1 Review
        Zones of International Friction, Vol. IV by Lawrence Henry Gipson
      19. [+]
        Four Eastern Cruises by Harrison Smith, p. 20 - 1 Review
        A Yachtman's Coast Pilot by H.S. "Skipper" Smith
      20. [+]
        The Andersons by Charles David Abbott, p. 20 - 1 Review
        Larz Anderson: Letters and Journals of a Diplomat by Isabel Anderson and Larz Anderson
      21. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 21-22 - 8 Reviews
        Baker Street and Beyond by Edgar W. Smith
        Weevil in the Cotton by Samuel Milton Elam
        The Delamer Curse by Anne Green
        A Castle in Carinthia by Johan Fabricius
        Small Potatoes by Emily L. Muir
        Land Without Laughter by Ahmad Kamal
        Wings Over the Americas by Alice Rogers Hager
        Down Jersey by Cornelius Weygandt
      22. Double-Crostics, p. 23
      23. Trade Winds, p. 24
    10. [+]
      September 7, 1940 Issue = 24 Articles
      1. Writers and Conferences by Carl Carmer, pp. 3-4
      2. Literary I.Q., p. 5
      3. [+]
        T.A.'s "Big Stick" by Alfred M. Bingham, p. 5 - 1 Review
        The Bottlenecks of Business by Thurman W. Arnold
      4. [+]
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        The Defenders by Franz Hoellering
      5. [+]
        Enigmatic Frontier by Fletcher Pratt, p. 6 - 1 Review
        The Pacific Ocean by Felix Riesenberg
      6. [+]
        Pioneer in Photography by Allan Nevins, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Time Exposure by William Henry Jackson
      7. Editorial, p. 8
      8. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      9. [+]
        "If It Prove Fair Weather" by George Dangerfield, p. 10 - 1 Review
        If It Prove Fair Weather by Isabel Paterson
      10. [+]
        As the Author Sees It If It Prove Fair Weather, by Isabel Paterson, p. 10 - 1 Review
        If It Prove Fair Weather by Isabel Paterson
      11. Too Small to See But Not to Read by Marvin Lowenthal, pp. 11-12
      12. [+]
        Dollars and Ditches by Howard J. Trueblood, p. 13 - 1 Review
        Suez and Panama by Andre Siegfried
      13. [+]
        Lion of the North by Garrett Mattingly, p. 13 - 1 Review
        Gustav Adolf, the Great by Nils Gabriel Ahnlund
      14. [+]
        What I Know About You, Etc. by George Dangerfield, p. 14 - 1 Review
        America, I Presume by Wyndham Lewis
      15. [+]
        History of the Negro by Jonathan Daniels, p. 15 - 1 Review
        The Negro in Virginia (#38)
      16. [+]
        Three Generations of Schoolmasters by Dudley Fitts, p. 16 - 1 Review
        Schoolmaster of Yesterday by Millard Fillmore Kennedy and Alvin F. Harlow
      17. [+]
        Southerntowns in Transition by Carroll Kilpatrick, pp. 16-17 - 1 Review
        The South in Progress by Katharine DuPre Lumpkin
      18. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 18 - 6 Reviews
        Made Up to Kill by Kelley Roos
        Last Act in Burmuda by David Burnham
        Dry Tortugas by Whitman Chambers
        Death on the Clock by Gertrude Knevels
        The Corpse Wore a Wig by George Bagby
        Doowinkle, D.A. by Harry Klingsberg
      19. [+]
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        Hitler and I by Otto Strasser
      20. [+]
        American English by Louise Pound, p. 19 - 1 Review
        A Dictionary of American English on Historical Principles by William A. Craigie and James R. Hulbert
      21. [+]
        More Sleep than Rest by James Frederick Green, p. 20 - 1 Review
        Why England Slept by John F. Kennedy
      22. [+]
        How to Live through a War by Mabel S. Ulrich, p. 20 - 1 Review
        A Psychologist's War-Time Diary by Anthony Weymouth
      23. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 21-22 - 4 Reviews
        And So to Bath by Cecil Roberts
        Fire Wall by Alan Clark
        The Brewers' Big Horses by Mildred Walker
        Big Stony by Howard T. Walden II
      24. Double-Crostics No. 337, pp. 23-24
    11. [+]
      September 14, 1940 Issue = 25 Articles
      1. Fifth Column "Literature" by Harold Lavine, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        Bitterest Sweet by Andre Maurois, p. 5 - 1 Review
        Europe in the Spring by Clare Boothe
      3. Your Literary I.Q., p. 6
      4. [+]
        "The P. & C. Man" by N.L. Rothman, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Jacoby's Corners by Jake Falstaff
      5. The Boyhood of the Wright Brothers by Selden Rodman, p. 7
      6. [+]
        From Donne to Arnold by Dudley Fitts, p. 7 - 2 Reviews
        From Donne to Dryden by Robert Lathrop Sharp
        The Poetry of Matthew Arnold by Chauncey Brewster Tinker and H.F. Lowry
      7. Love-Song by Witter Bynner, p. 8
      8. Editorial, p. 8
      9. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      10. [+]
        Miniature Artistry by Louis J. Halle, Jr., p. 10 - 1 Review
        Mirror of a Dead Lady by Helen Douglas Irvine
      11. [+]
        Privation in Iceland by N.L. Rothman, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Troubled Waters by Roger Vercel
      12. Some Southern Given-Names by H.L. Mencken, p. 11
      13. [+]
        When London Burned by Garrett Mattingly, p. 11 - 1 Review
        A Spanish Tudor: The Life of "Bloody Mary" by H.F.M. Prescott
      14. [+]
        Nightmares Are Fun by Fred Schwed, Jr., p. 12 - 1 Review
        But Who Wakes the Bugler? by Peter De Vries
      15. [+]
        Sculptor Plus by Frank Caspers, p. 12 - 1 Review
        The Sculpture of Michelangelo by Ludwig Goldscheider
      16. [+]
        Cabellcountry by Agnes Rothery, p. 13 - 1 Review
        Virginia: A Guide to the Old Dominion
      17. [+]
        War Dep't, 1940 by Fletcher Pratt, p. 13 - 1 Review
        In the Wake of the Raiders, and the Merchant Navy Flights by A.D. Divine
      18. [+]
        Nowhere and Return by Phil Stong, pp. 14-16 - 1 Review
        Sullivan by Clyde Brion Davis
      19. [+]
        Ectomorphs and Stuff by Louis Berman, M.D., p. 17 - 1 Review
        The Varieties of Human Physique by William Herbert Sheldon
      20. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 18 - 6 Reviews
        The Corpse Grows a Beard by Margaret Scherf
        My Own Murderer by Richard Hull
        The Headless Lady by Clayton Rawson
        Account Rendered by Patricia Wentworth
        The D.A. Goes to Trial by Erle Stanley Gardner
        Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie
      21. [+]
        Russian Realism by Manya Gordon, p. 18 - 1 Review
        Dostoevski: The Making of a Novelist by Ernest J. Simmons
      22. [+]
        Scythia to Soviet by Stephen Naft, p. 19 - 1 Review
        Russia Through the Ages by Stuart Ramsay Tompkins
      23. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 20-22 - 8 Reviews
        Big Sandy by Jean Thomas
        Teresa Careno by Maria Milinowski
        Legion of Dishonor by Ivan Lebedeff
        Fruit Out of Rock by Frances Gillmor
        No Steeper Wall by Percy Marks
        Yankee Skipper by Joseph Gainard
        Test Tubes and Dragon Scales by George C. Basil and Elizabeth Foreman Lewis
        See Canada Next by Larry Nixon
      24. Double-Crostics No. 338, p. 23
      25. Trade Winds, p. 24
    12. [+]
      September 21, 1940 Issue = 20 Articles
      1. The Negro and American Culture by V.F. Calverton, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        Thomas Wolfe's Torrent of Recollection by Stephen Vincent Benet, p. 5 - 1 Review
        You Can't Go Home Again by Thomas Wolfe
      3. Your Literary I.Q., p. 6
      4. [+]
        From Galena to Washington by Allan Nevins, p. 6 - 1 Review
        A Man Named Grant by Helen Todd
      5. [+]
        Nuggets and the Nation by Richard T. Ely, p. 7 - 1 Review
        The Real Danger in Our Gold by Harry Scherman
      6. [+]
        A Diplomat of Destiny by James Frederick Green, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Diplomat of Destiny by George Franckenstein
      7. Editorial, p. 8
      8. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      9. [+]
        Challenging the Champ by Lindsay Rogers, p. 10 - 1 Review
        This Is Wendell Willkie by Wendell L. Willkie
      10. [+]
        Down-to-Earth Air Talk by Hanson W. Baldwin, p. 11 - 2 Reviews
        Airpower by Al Williams
        Fighting Planes of the World by Bernard A. Law
      11. [+]
        Byron and Trelawny by Margaret Armstrong, pp. 12-14 - 1 Review
        Trelawny: A Man's Life by Margaret Armstrong
      12. [+]
        Union Now... by Amy Loveman, p. 15 - 1 Review
        The Family by Nina Fedorova
      13. [+]
        Novelizing Charles Lamb by Richard A. Cordell, pp. 16-17 - 1 Review
        So Perish the Roses by Neil Bell
      14. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 18 - 5 Reviews
        Death of a Lucky Lady by Virginia Rath
        Rendezvous with the Past by Kathleen Moore Knight
        The Balcony by Dorothy Cameron Disney
        Guilty! by Lee Thayer
        The Summer Camp Mystery by Nicholas Blake
      15. [+]
        M. & M. Warfare by R. Ernest Dupuy, p. 19 - 1 Review
        The Art of Modern Warfare by Hermann Foertsch
      16. [+]
        The Late Carl Akeley by Louis J. Halle, Jr., p. 20 - 1 Review
        The Wilderness Lives Again by Mary L. Jobe Akeley
      17. [+]
        Elbows and Benders by Oliver Durrell, p. 20 - 1 Review
        If You Drink by Wilfred Funk
      18. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 21-22 - 6 Reviews
        Hungarian Rhapsody by Bertita L. Harding
        From Off Island by Dionis Coffin Riggs
        I, the King by Hermann Kesten
        Gabriel's Search by Della T. Lutes
        So Falls the Elm Tree by John Louis Bonn
        A Man Without Friends by Margaret Echard
      19. Double-Crostics No. 339, p. 23
      20. Trade Wings, p. 24
    13. [+]
      September 28, 1940 Issue = 20 Articles
      1. Partners in Print by Vincent Starrett, pp. 3-4
      2. Your Literary I.Q., p. 5
      3. [+]
        A Wells without Remedy by Fletcher Pratt, p. 5 - 1 Review
        Babes in the Darkling Wood by H.G. Wells
      4. [+]
        The Tragedy of Reality by Bertrand Russell, p. 6 - 1 Review
        The Dream We Lost by Freda Utley
      5. [+]
        History and Intentions by Andre Maurois, p. 7 - 1 Review
        France Under the Republic, 1870-1939 by D.W. Brogan
      6. Editorial, p. 8
      7. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      8. [+]
        Blood vs. Thunder by Franz Hoellering, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Beyond Tears by Irmgard Litten
      9. [+]
        "Salud, Camarada" by James Benet, p. 10 - 1 Review
        The Great Crusade by Gustav Regler
      10. [+]
        An Amazon of Letters by Katharine Anthony, p. 11 - 1 Review
        Romantic Rebel by Felizia Seyd
      11. [+]
        But Can It Survive? by Jacques Barzun, p. 12 - 1 Review
        ...Shall Not Perish from the Earth by Ralph Barton Perry
      12. [+]
        Autobiography at 90 by R. Ellis Roberts, p. 12 - 1 Review
        Cities and Men by Inman Barnard
      13. American Family by William Rose Benet, p. 13
      14. [+]
        American Family in Mexico by Carleton Beals, p. 14 - 1 Review
        The Mexican Touch by Edwa Moser
      15. [+]
        "King of the Dudes" by Fairfax Downey, pp. 14-15 - 1 Review
        Neither Pest Nor Puritan by E. Berry Wall
      16. [+]
        He Made France "Aggressive" by Crane Brinton, pp. 16-17 - 1 Review
        Richelieu: His Rise to Power by Carl J. Burckhardt, Edwin Muir, and Willa Muir
      17. [+]
        The Criminal Record, pp. 18-19 - 5 Reviews
        The Candy Killings by Gail Stockwell
        Murder Without Make-Up by Edla Benjamin
        Death Joins the Woman's Club by Charles Saxby
        Kill One, Kill Two by W.W. Anderson
        Nine Times Nine by H.H. Holmes
      18. [+]
        The New Books, p. 20 - 3 Reviews
        Bonnie Prince Charlie by Clennell Wilkinson
        Clear for Action by Clements Ripley
        Refugee by Clara Leiser
      19. Trade Winds, pp. 21-22
      20. Double-Crostics No. 340, pp. 23-24
  4. [+]
    Issues of Oct.-Dec. 1940 = 13 Issues, 323 Articles
    1. [+]
      October 5, 1940 Issue = 25 Articles
      1. I'm a Literary Sharecropper by David L. Cohn, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        Swashbuckler Plus by Richard Aldington, p. 5 - 1 Review
        Trelawny: A Man's Life by Margaret Armstrong
      3. Of England by Stuart Cloete, p. 6
      4. [+]
        French Sea Story by Basil Davenport, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Rose of the Sea by Paul Vialar
      5. Your Literary I.Q., p. 7
      6. [+]
        Historical Homesickness by Jonathan Daniels, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Raleigh's Eden by Inglis C. Fletcher
      7. The Old Woman with Four Sons by Phyllis McGinley, p. 8
      8. Editorial, p. 8
      9. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      10. [+]
        The Point's the Thing by John Temple Graves, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Minority Report by Bernard A. DeVoto
      11. [+]
        Life and Fun by Phil Stong, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Mr. Littlejohn by Martin Flavin
      12. [+]
        Distilled Disillusion by Louis Hacker, p. 11 - 1 Review
        To the Finland Station by Edmund Wilson
      13. [+]
        Testament of Faith by Frances Smyth, p. 12 - 1 Review
        Growing Pains by Wanda Gag
      14. [+]
        Sir Galahad in China by Freda Utley, p. 13 - 1 Review
        Twin Stars of China by Evans Fordyce Carlson
      15. [+]
        Gadgets and Society by Paul Bixler, p. 14 - 1 Review
        Engines of Democracy by Roger Burlingame
      16. [+]
        He Stayed in Boston by James Hilton Smyth, pp. 14-15 - 1 Review
        I Speak for Myself by Edwin Francis Edgett
      17. [+]
        Maryland Sea-Squire by Fletcher Pratt, p. 16 - 1 Review
        Sailor of Fortune by Hulbert Footner
      18. [+]
        Gallic Dreamer by Katharine Scherman, p. 16 - 1 Review
        Claude Debussy, Master of Dreams by Maurice Dumesnil
      19. [+]
        The Thinking Mask by Gilbert Highet, p. 17 - 1 Review
        The Spirit of Moliere by Percy Chapman
      20. [+]
        America South by Carleton Beals, p. 17 - 1 Review
        The Pan American Highway by Harry A. Franck and Herbert C. Lanks
      21. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 18 - 5 Reviews
        A Murder by Marriage by Robert George Dean
        Fugitive from Murder by M.V. Heberden
        Death Conducts a Tour by Ruth Darby
        The Station Wagon Murder by Milton Propper
        The Bowling Green Murders by Helen Woodward and Frances Amherst
      22. [+]
        The New Books, p. 19 - 6 Reviews
        1940 Essay Annual~~Nineteen Forty Essay Annual by Erich A. Walter
        Magistrates' Court by Henry H. Curran
        The Moon Was Low by Monica Dickens
        The House of Lee by Gertrude Atherton
        The Devil and the Doctor by David H. Keller
        From England to America by Henry Noel Brailsford
      23. Records in Review by Edward Tatnall Canby, p. 20
      24. Trade Winds, pp. 21-22
      25. Double-Crostics No. 341, pp. 23-24
    2. [+]
      October 12, 1940 Issue = 31 Articles
      1. What's Wrong with Authors by Bennett Cerf, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        Predestination to Defeat by William Henry Chamberlin, p. 5 - 1 Review
        Tragedy in France by Andre Maurois
      3. Your Literary I.Q. by Howard Collins, p. 6
      4. [+]
        Future with a Battlefield by T.A. Bisson, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Our Future in Asia by Robert Aura Smith
      5. [+]
        Biography of American Nature by Henry Seidel Canby, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Audubon's America by Donald Culross Peattie and Audubon
      6. The Moral Equivalent of War by William James, p. 8
      7. [+]
        Chicago's Danny O'Neill by Stephen Vincent Benet, p. 9 - 1 Review
        Father and Son by James T. Farrell
      8. [+]
        Why Bombs Are Not Enough by Andre Maurois, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Letter from England by Mollie Panter-Downes
      9. [+]
        The Marxist Road from Moscow by John Chamberlain, p. 11 - 1 Review
        The Triumph of American Capitalism by Louis M. Hacker
      10. Citation for a Bed by Elizabeth K. Phelps Stokes, p. 12
      11. Editorial, p. 12
      12. Letters to the Editor, p. 13
      13. [+]
        Two Wanderers, As Seen by a Third by Linton Wells, p. 14 - 1 Review
        Letter of Credit by Jerome Weidman
      14. [+]
        The War Between the Sexes by Ben Ray Redman, p. 15 - 1 Review
        Costals and the Hippogriff by Henry de Montherlant
      15. [+]
        Sweet Reasonableness by N.L. Rothman, pp. 15-17 - 1 Review
        Count Ten by Hans Otto Storm
      16. [+]
        Toscana Saga by Basil Davenport, p. 18 - 1 Review
        Dago Red by John Fante
      17. Writers in Season by Robert Disraeli, pp. 19-25
      18. [+]
        World Problem No. 1 by Oswald G. Villard, pp. 26-28 - 1 Review
        Dusk of Dawn by W.E. Burghardt DuBois
      19. Author! Author! by Eugene Armfield, pp. 29-31
      20. [+]
        Dear Harp of My Country by Ernest Boyd, pp. 32-33 - 2 Reviews
        An Irish Journey by Sean O'Faolain
        Come Back to Erin by Sean O'Faolain
      21. A Reader's Almanac by Alice Hackett, pp. 34-37
      22. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 38 - 12 Reviews
        And Sudden Death by Cleve F. Adams
        Black Corridors by Constance Little and Gwenyth Little
        Death in Costume by Allan McRoyd
        Deadly Nightshade by Elizabeth Daly
        Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler
        Journey Into Fear by Eric Ambler
        Crime Incarnate by Carolyn Wells
        Gold Comes in Bricks by A.A. Fair
        Black Plumes by Margery Allingham
        Who'd Shoot a Genius? by Sturges Mason Schley
        Murder Is Not Mute by Audrey Newell
        This Death Was Murder by March Evermay
      23. [+]
        Patter into Pattern by T.V. Smith, p. 38 - 1 Review
        The Pattern of Politics by John T. Salter
      24. [+]
        Life Story, Part II by John Erskine, p. 39 - 1 Review
        Across the Busy Years by Nicholas Murray Butler
      25. [+]
        Complex Continent by M.E. Tracy, p. 40 - 1 Review
        North America by J. Russell Smith
      26. [+]
        Adventures in Education by Henry Noble MacCracken, p. 41 - 1 Review
        I Remember by Abraham Flexner
      27. [+]
        Horses and Men by Phil Stong, p. 42 - 2 Reviews
        "Hoss" Doctor by R.J. Dinsmore
        Horses I Have Known by Will James
      28. [+]
        The New Books by Jacques Barzun, p. 43 - 1 Review
        The Moral Basis of Democracy by Eleanor Roosevelt
      29. [+]
        Review Weep and Prepare, by Raymond E.F. Larsson by Louis Untermeyer, pp. 43-44 - 1 Review
        Weep and Prepare by Raymond E.F. Larsson
      30. Double-Crostics No. 342 by Elizabeth S. Kingsley, p. 45
      31. Trade Winds by P.E.G. Quercus, pp. 46-48
    3. [+]
      October 19, 1940 Issue = 27 Articles
      1. The Exiled Writers by Benjamin Appel, pp. 3-5
      2. Democracy's Innocence by Jules Romains, p. 6
      3. Men of Good Will by Andre Maurois, p. 6
      4. The Hour of Decision by Albert Einstein, p. 7
      5. Exiles and the League by Ralph Roeder, p. 7
      6. "Serre Chaude" by Maurice Maeterlinck, p. 7
      7. Ethical Duty by Hermann Broch, p. 8
      8. Collectividualists by Erich Kahler, p. 8
      9. Portait of Herman Broch by Rudolph von Ripper, p. 8
      10. The Lessons of Poland by Princess Paul Sapieha, p. 9
      11. Cultural Repository by Fannie Hurst, pp. 9-10
      12. "Symphonie Nuptiale" Etching by Rudolph von Ripper, p. 11
      13. Editorial, p. 12
      14. Letters to the Editor, p. 13
      15. The World of Today by Heinz Pol, pp. 14-15
      16. A Gallery of Exiles by Georges Schreiber, pp. 16-17
      17. [+]
        Freddie Benson's Story by R. Ellis Roberts, pp. 18-19 - 1 Review
        Final Edition by E.F. Benson
      18. [+]
        Attention, A.H. by M.E. Tracy, p. 20 - 1 Review
        Letters from the Corsican by Anonymous
      19. [+]
        An Ordinary Man by Frances Smyth, p. 21 - 1 Review
        Tiger, Tiger by Max White
      20. [+]
        Adventures of Curly by Charlton Ogburn, Jr., pp. 22-23 - 1 Review
        Transit U.S.A. by W.L. River
      21. Your Literary I.Q., p. 24
      22. [+]
        Babbittian Congeries by Garrett Mattingly, pp. 24-25 - 1 Review
        Spanish Character, and Other Essays by Irving Babbitt
      23. [+]
        Hamlet Leads the Revolution by Carleton Beals, p. 26 - 1 Review
        The Fields of Paradise by Ralph Bates
      24. [+]
        France Under Napoleon III by Crane Brinton, p. 27 - 1 Review
        The Second Empire by Octave Aubry
      25. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 28 - 8 Reviews
        Death at Her Elbow by Donald Clough Cameron
        Murderer's Vanity by Hulbert Footner
        While the Wind Howled by Audrey Gaines
        Murder in the Mist by Zelda Popkin
        Nine---and Death Makes Ten by Carter Dickson
        Murder in the Making by Herman Petersen
        The Yellow Angels by Henry Edward Helseth
        Blue Mask Victorious by Anthony Morton
      26. Trade Winds, pp. 29-30
      27. Double-Crostics No. 343, pp. 31-32
    4. [+]
      October 26, 1940 Issue = 22 Articles
      1. These United States by Lancelot Hogben, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        The Soul of Spain by Howard Mumford Jones, p. 5 - 1 Review
        For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
      3. Your Literary I.Q., p. 6
      4. [+]
        Magnificent Incident by Ben Ray Redman, p. 6 - 1 Review
        The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark
      5. [+]
        John D. and His Era by Norman Cousins, p. 7 - 1 Review
        John D. Rockefeller: The Heroic Age of American Enterprise by Allan Nevins
      6. Editorial, p. 8
      7. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      8. Author, Author! by Eugene Armfield, p. 10
      9. [+]
        The Country's Roots by Russell Lord, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Singing Valleys by Dorothy Giles
      10. The Cash-and-No-Credit Business by Edith M. Stern, pp. 11-12
      11. "Somewhere in Europe" by F.C. Weiskopf, p. 13
      12. [+]
        Once There Was a France... by Henry B. Kranz, p. 13 - 2 Reviews
        Suicide of a Democracy by Heinz Pol
        I Saw France Fall: Will She Rise Again? by Rene de Chambrun
      13. [+]
        A Ranch in Hawaii by Hassoldt Davis, p. 14 - 1 Review
        Born in Paradise by Armine von Tempski
      14. [+]
        Dear Pal John by N.L. Rothman, pp. 14-15 - 1 Review
        Pal Joey by John O'Hara
      15. [+]
        Poetry and Tradition by Dudley Fitts, p. 16 - 2 Reviews
        With Wings as Eagles by William Rose Benet
        Against the Cold by Witter Bynner
      16. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 17 - 5 Reviews
        Hush, Gabriel! by Veronica Parker Johns
        The Corpse with the Listening Ear by Laurence Dwight Smith
        Death Comes to Tea by Theodora DuBois
        Trapped by Hammond Innes
        In the Face of the Verdict by John Rhode
      17. [+]
        Leisure Is So Arduous by Crane Brinton, p. 17 - 1 Review
        The Reign of Beau Brummell by Willard Connely
      18. [+]
        Charlie-Chaplinade by Paul Rosenfeld, p. 18 - 1 Review
        Amerika by Franz Kafka
      19. [+]
        Americantown by Joseph F. Dinneen, pp. 18-19 - 1 Review
        The City on the Hill by Marian Sims
      20. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 20-21 - 3 Reviews
        Man of Spain by Joseph H. Fichter
        Bright Journey by August Derleth
        Light Over Ruby Street by Edward Harris Heth
      21. Trade Winds, p. 22
      22. Double-Crostics No. 344, pp. 23-24
    5. [+]
      November 2, 1940 Issue = 21 Articles
      1. What's Wrong with Publishers? by Burton Rascoe, pp. 3-4
      2. Your Literary I.Q., p. 5
      3. [+]
        Soldier with Burgoyne by Stephen Vincent Benet, p. 5 - 1 Review
        Sergeant Lamb's America by Robert Graves
      4. The SRL in Literary History, p. 6
      5. [+]
        The Youth of Abe Lincoln by Allan Nevins, p. 6 - 1 Review
        For Us, the Living by Bruce Lancaster
      6. [+]
        Story Behind A News Service by Oswald Garrison Villard, p. 7 - 1 Review
        AP: The Story of News by Oliver Gramling
      7. Editorial, p. 8
      8. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      9. Author Author!, p. 10
      10. [+]
        Land and the People by Russell Lord, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Corn Bread and Creek Water by Charles Morrow Wilson
      11. [+]
        "Creative Travel" by Hassoldt Davis, p. 11 - 1 Review
        The Fire Ox and Other Years by C. Suydam Cutting
      12. [+]
        Saul Bergman's Sons by James T. Farrell, p. 12 - 1 Review
        Sons of the Fathers by Albert Halper
      13. [+]
        Off the Canvas by Frank J. Mather, Jr., p. 13 - 1 Review
        Artists Say the Silliest Things by Guy Pene du Bois
      14. [+]
        "For Normal Purposes" by Charlton Ogburn, Jr., pp. 13-16 - 1 Review
        Melanie by Gina Kaus
      15. [+]
        Successful Parson by Edwin Daniels, p. 17 - 1 Review
        One Foot in Heaven by Hartzell Spence
      16. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 18 - 8 Reviews
        The Ticking Heart by D.B. Olsen
        Nice People Don't Kill by F.W. Bronson
        Sing a Song of Homicide by James R. Langham
        Death of a Peer by Ngaio Marsh
        Murder Comes Back by H. Ashbrook
        Death by Dynamite by Joseph L. Bonney
        Murderer's Holiday by Donald Henderson Clarke
        Crime Hound by Mary Semple Scott
      17. [+]
        Judge's Shoptalk by James Reid Parker, p. 18 - 1 Review
        A Judge Comes of Age by John C. Knox
      18. [+]
        For the Millions by Nathan C. Sharfman, p. 19 - 1 Review
        The Stoic and Epicurean Philosophers by Whitney J. Oates
      19. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 20-22 - 4 Reviews
        Ink on My Hands by Clayton Rand
        Eleanor Roosevelt: A Biography by Ruby Black
        All the World and I by Hepburn Dinwoodie
        Spripling by Youel B. Mirza
      20. Double-Crostics No. 345, p. 23
      21. Trade Winds, p. 24
    6. [+]
      November 9, 1940 Issue = 24 Articles
      1. The Campaign Biography by Joseph Sugarman, Jr., pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        Arthurian Cycle by Ben Ray Redman, p. 5 - 1 Review
        The Ill-Made Knight by T.H. White
      3. [+]
        The Stechers Again by Richard A. Cordell, p. 5 - 1 Review
        In the Money by William Carlos Williams
      4. Your Literary I.Q., p. 6
      5. [+]
        The Intractable Mr. Churchill by Andre Maurois, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Winston Churchill: A Biography by Rene Kraus
      6. [+]
        The All-American Dream by Raymond G. Fuller, p. 7 - 1 Review
        From Many Lands by Louis Adamic
      7. Editorial, p. 8
      8. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      9. [+]
        Christian Diplomacy by Henry N. MacCracken, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Not to Me Only by Caleb Frank Gates
      10. [+]
        Of the Presidency by Lindsay Rogers, p. 10 - 2 Reviews
        The President: Office and Powers by Edward S. Corwin
        Presidential Leadership by E. Pendleton Herring
      11. Do Writers Borrow? by John Erskine, p. 11
      12. [+]
        Art Stands Alone by Oliver Larkin, p. 12 - 1 Review
        Let There Be Sculpture by Jacob Epstein
      13. Author! Author!, p. 13
      14. [+]
        The Two-on-the-Aisle Man by Louis Kronenberger, pp. 13-14 - 1 Review
        Broadway in Review by John Mason Brown
      15. [+]
        Clark's Campaign by Herbert Gorman, p. 15 - 1 Review
        Westward the Tide by Harold Sinclair
      16. [+]
        Mr. Hogben's Hegira by Raymond Holden, p. 16 - 1 Review
        Author in Transit by Lancelot T. Hogben
      17. [+]
        America and Britain by Crane Brinton, p. 16 - 1 Review
        The American Impact on Great Britain, 1898-1914 by Richard Heathcote Heindel
      18. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 17 - 5 Reviews
        The Goose Is Cooked by Emmett Hogarth
        Murder Comes at Midnight by Inez Oellrichs
        The Twenty-Fourth Horse by Hugh Pentecost
        The Dead Can Tell by Helen Reilly
        The Double Death of Frederic Belot by Claude Aveline
      19. [+]
        "Practical Dreamer" by Albert N. Williams, p. 17 - 1 Review
        Fessenden, Builder of Tomorrows by Helen M. Fessenden
      20. Records in Review, p. 18
      21. [+]
        Down Mexico Way by Carleton Beals, p. 18 - 1 Review
        South of the Border by Arthemise Goertz
      22. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 19-20 - 6 Reviews
        Father Was an Editor by Joshua K. Bolles
        Father Huntington by Vida Dutton Scudder
        The Spanish Bride by Georgette Heyer
        The First Rescue Party by Karel Capek
        A Woman Faces the War by Ruth Drummond
        The Art of Useful Writing by Walter B. Pitkin
      23. Trade Winds, pp. 21-22
      24. Double-Crostics No. 346, pp. 23-24
    7. [+]
      November 16, 1940 Issue = 31 Articles
      1. Water Babies---with Plain Water by Basil Davenport, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        Virginibus Puerisque by Raymond Holden, p. 5 - 8 Reviews
        American Songbirds by Maitland A. Edey
        American Wild Flowers by Cecile Hulse Matschat
        Pecos Bill and Lightning by Leigh Peck
        Men Without Fear by John Joseph Floherty
        Our Airliners by Irving Crump and Norman Maul
        Bob Wakefield's Flight Log by Blaine Miller and Dupont Miller
        Wonders of the Heavens by Arthur Draper
        On Safari by Theodore J. Waldeck
      3. [+]
        Magical Grown-Up by Rosemary C. Benet, p. 5 - 1 Review
        Kingdom of Innocents by Mildred Cram
      4. [+]
        Books of Foreign Background by Fay Gillis Wells, p. 6 - 7 Reviews
        Mario and the Chuma by Esther Greenacre Hall
        Piskey Folk by Enys Tregarthen
        Luck of Scotland by Ivy May Bolton
        Marusia by Florence Randal Livesay
        The Secret of the Lodge by Noel Streatfeild
        A Son of the First People by Adelaide Wilson Arnold
        The Keepers of Elephant Valley by Reginald Campbell
      5. [+]
        Books for Older Children by Robert Van Gelder, p. 7 - 8 Reviews
        Shadow Over Winding Ranch by Sarah Lindsay Schmidt
        Don Watson Starts His Band by George T. Simon
        The King of Scuffletoun by John Paul Lucas, Jr. and Bailey T. Groome
        Call of the Mountain by Cornelia Meigs
        Winged Mystery by Alan Gregg
        River Empire by Helen Clark Fernald and Edwin M. Slocombe
        Colonel of the Crimson by Robert S. Playfair
        Landlubber by Pedar Larssen
      6. [+]
        New York North by Walter D. Edmonds, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Along the Erie Towpath by Enid LaMonte Meadowcroft
      7. ï¿½---ï¿½ï¿½by Katherine Ulrich, p. 8
      8. [+]
        Career Books by Katherine Ulrich, p. 8 - 7 Reviews
        River-Boy by Isabel Boyd Proudfit
        Wings for Words by Douglas C. McMurtrie
        They Were Strong and Good by Robert Lawson
        Edward Macdowell and His Cabin in the Pines by Opal Wheeler and Sybil Deucher
        God's Troubadour by Sophie Jewett
        Nothing Ever Happens, and How It Does by Dorothy Canfield Fisher and Sarah N. Cleghorn, ...
        The Gay Poet by Jeannette Covert Nolan
      9. [+]
        Virginibus Puerisque by Zoe C. Durrell, p. 9 - 13 Reviews
        Fifi by Ludwig Bemelmans
        Jock's Castle by Katharine Gibson
        Dina and Betsy by Adele de Leeuw
        The Lost Locket by Ethel Parton
        Peter by the Sea by Julian R. Meade
        The House Across the Way by Eliza Orne White
        Bill and Nancy by Mildred Wasson
        David and Patience by Edith Tallant
        Lady Arabella's Birthday Party by Margaret Baker and Mary Baker
        Sweet Possum Valley by Christine Noble Govan
        Crooktail by Agnes Akin Atkinson
        The Weather House People by Marie McSwigan
        Sea Is All Around by Elizabeth Enright
      10. [+]
        Moose Country by Louis J. Halle, Jr., p. 9 - 1 Review
        Adventure North by Kathrene Pinkerton
      11. Editorial, p. 10
      12. Letters to the Editor, p. 11
      13. [+]
        Morgan's Intelligible World by George Dangerfield, p. 12 - 1 Review
        The Voyage by Charles Morgan
      14. [+]
        Enter "Pollitry" by N.L. Rothman, p. 12 - 1 Review
        The Man Who Loved Children by Christina Stead
      15. [+]
        "Crying Havoc" by Norman L. Rollins, p. 13 - 1 Review
        No. 21 Castle Street by H.W. Katz
      16. [+]
        U.S. Blitzkrieg, 1960 by Fletcher Pratt, p. 13 - 1 Review
        Invasion by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
      17. [+]
        Brooklyn's Joads by Howard Mumford Jones, p. 13 - 1 Review
        The Ghostland by Fred Rothermell
      18. [+]
        Disaster Time-Table by Andre Maurois, p. 14 - 1 Review
        Chronology of Failure by Hamilton Fish Armstrong
      19. [+]
        The Inner Wheels in Germany by David H. Popper, pp. 14-15 - 1 Review
        Caesars in Goose Step by William D. Bayles
      20. [+]
        Strong Conversation by Benjamin Appel, p. 16 - 1 Review
        My Native Land by Anna Louise Strong
      21. [+]
        Bird of Freedom by Louis J. Halle, Jr., p. 17 - 1 Review
        Jungle in the Clouds by Victor Wolfgang von Hagen
      22. [+]
        Texas Fighter and Hero by Allan Nevins, pp. 17-18 - 1 Review
        Captain Lee Hall of Texas by Dora Neill Raymond
      23. [+]
        Labor and a Life by Palmer Harman, p. 19 - 1 Review
        What's Past Is Prologue by Mary Barnett Gilson
      24. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 20 - 5 Reviews
        The Misplaced Corpse by Sarah Rider
        The Sun Is a Witness by Aaron Marc Stein
        Cleopatra's Tears by Harry Stephen Keeler
        The Bucharest Ballerina Murders by F. Van Wyck Mason
        Murder in the Family by James Ronald
      25. [+]
        Girl Reporter by Joseph Hilton Smyth, p. 20 - 1 Review
        My Shadow in the Sun by Frances Davis
      26. [+]
        Virginibus Puerisque by Katharine Scherman, pp. 21-22 - 13 Reviews
        The Microscopic World by Frank Thone
        The Story of Alaska by Clara Breakey Lambert
        Children of the Sea by Wilfrid S. Bronson
        The Tumble-Bug and Other Tales by Hans Christian Andersen
        The Bells of Amsterdam by Ruth Holberg
        Little Jungle Village by Jo Besse McElveen Waldeck
        Trail and Camp-Fire Stories by Ernest Thompson Seton and Julia M. Seton
        Flight 17 by Henry B. Lent
        Bill and the Bird Bander by Edna H. Evans
        Wings Over West Point by R.G. Emery
        Mister Ole by Richard Bennett
        Where the Winds Never Blow by Padraic Colum
        The American Mother Goose by Ray Wood
      27. [+]
        Idea for a Pet by Donald C. Peattie, p. 23 - 1 Review
        Wilderness Orphan by Dorothy Cottrell
      28. [+]
        Feline Scheherazade by Rosemary C. Benet, p. 23 - 1 Review
        The Cat's Cradle-Book by Sylvia Townsend Warner
      29. [+]
        A New Dickens by Alexander Cowie, pp. 23-24 - 1 Review
        Introducing Charles Dickens by May Lamberton Becker
      30. [+]
        Virginibus Puerisque by Gladys Graham, pp. 25-26 - 12 Reviews
        Aprilly Weather by Margaret Thomsen Raymond
        Edra of the Islands by Marjorie Medary
        Mill Creek Mystery by Maristan Chapman
        Burtonwood Island by Lavinia R. Davis
        A Mystery for Margery by Gladys Blake
        Clo by Jane Abbott
        At the End of Nowhere by Florence Crannell Means
        Paula Goes Away to School by Marguerite Vance
        The Fair Adventure by Elizabeth Janet Gray
        The Year of Jubilo by Ruth Sawyer
        Roxana Rampant by Laura Benet
        Pamela's Paradise Ranch by Armine von Tempski
      31. Double-Crostics No. 347, pp. 27-28
    8. [+]
      November 23, 1940 Issue = 21 Articles
      1. The Economics of Authorship by Elmer Davis, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        Young Man in a Revolution by Allan Nevins, p. 5 - 1 Review
        Oliver Wiswell by Kenneth Roberts
      3. Editorial, p. 6
      4. [+]
        H. Shawcross, Labor Politician by George Dangerfield, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Fame Is the Spur by Howard Spring
      5. Your Literary I.Q., p. 8
      6. [+]
        The Old China Hand by Pearl S. Buck, p. 8 - 1 Review
        Foreign Devils in the Flowery Kingdom by Carl Crow
      7. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      8. [+]
        "There Is a Tide..." by William H. Chamberlin, p. 10 - 1 Review
        The Tide of Fortune by Stefan Zweig
      9. [+]
        The Story of Ned Langford by Charlton Ogburn, Jr., p. 10 - 1 Review
        Who Walk Alone by Perry Burgess
      10. The Book America Wrote by Edward M. Brecher, pp. 11-12
      11. [+]
        The Songs We Sing by Heinz Norden, p. 13 - 1 Review
        A Treasury of American Song by Olin Downes and Elie Siegmeister
      12. [+]
        Actor and Critic by Leonard Bacon, pp. 14-16 - 1 Review
        Horace Walpole: A Biography by Robert W. Ketton-Cremer
      13. [+]
        In Old Virginia by H.J. Heckenrode, p. 17 - 1 Review
        Torchbearer of the Revolution by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker
      14. [+]
        Artistic Fabulist by Fred Schwed, Jr., p. 17 - 1 Review
        Fables for Our Time by James Thurber
      15. [+]
        Honorable Murder by Albert Neville, p. 18 - 1 Review
        Pistols at Ten Paces by William Oliver Stevens
      16. [+]
        The Time Is Now by Henry B. Kranz, p. 19 - 1 Review
        Zero Hour: A Summons to Be Free by Stephen Vincent Benet, Erika Mann, and McGeorge Bundy, ...
      17. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 20 - 4 Reviews
        The Turn of the Table by Jonathan Stagge
        The Great Mistake by Mary Roberts Rinehart
        The Wrong Murder by Craig Rice
        Last Train Out by E. Phillips Oppenheim
      18. [+]
        The New Books, p. 20 - 4 Reviews
        Do Not Disturb by Frank Case
        The Hill Is Mine by Maurice Walsh
        Slava Bohu by James F.C. Wright
        They Don't Dance Much by James Ross
      19. Author Author!, pp. 21-22
      20. Double-Crostics No. 348, p. 23
      21. Trade Winds, p. 24
    9. [+]
      November 30, 1940 Issue = 24 Articles
      1. Well, What's Wrong! by Raymond T. Bond, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        Tunnel to Heaven by Raymond Holden, p. 5 - 1 Review
        Embezzled Heaven by Franz Werfel
      3. Your Literary I.Q., p. 6
      4. [+]
        Faith in A Mad World by Stuart Chase, p. 6 - 1 Review
        With Love and Irony by Yutang Lin
      5. The Balance Sheets of Battle by Peter F. Drucker, p. 7
      6. Editorial, p. 8
      7. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      8. [+]
        Man-Made Earthquake by William H. Chamberlin, p. 10 - 1 Review
        The Revolution Is On by M.W. Fodor
      9. [+]
        Reading on the Run by Paul Bixler, p. 10 - 1 Review
        The News and How to Understand It by Quincy Howe
      10. [+]
        How Presidents Are Made by James Truslow Adams, p. 11 - 1 Review
        The President Makers by Matthew Josephson
      11. [+]
        Medical Pioneer by Eugene de Savitsch, p. 12 - 1 Review
        Hugh Young: A Surgeon's Autobiography by Hugh H. Young
      12. [+]
        Modern Hospital by Bertram D. Lewin, M.D., p. 12 - 1 Review
        Bellevue by Lorraine Mayndard and Laurence Miscall, M.D.
      13. [+]
        Baltimore Surgeon by Mabel S. Ulrich, p. 13 - 1 Review
        A Surgeon's Life by J.M.T. Finney
      14. [+]
        Toward a Longer Life by Murray Bass, M.D., p. 13 - 1 Review
        The Doctor and His Patients by Arthur E. Hertzler, M.D.
      15. [+]
        Female Explorers in the Near East by Hassoldt Davis, p. 14 - 1 Review
        Gertrude Bell by Ronald Bodley and Laura Hearst
      16. [+]
        Freya Stark A Winter in Arabia, by Freya Stark by Linton Wells, pp. 14-15 - 1 Review
        A Winter in Arabia by Freya Stark
      17. [+]
        The Fastidious Mr. Westcott by George Dangerfield, p. 16 - 1 Review
        The Pilgrim Hawk by Glenway Wescott
      18. [+]
        The Squire and Some Characters by Charlton Ogburn, Jr., p. 16 - 1 Review
        He and His by Reginald Carter
      19. [+]
        One Girl, One Summer by Frances Smyth, p. 17 - 1 Review
        Hildreth by Harlow Estes
      20. [+]
        Nature in Conflict with Man by Louis J. Halle, Jr., pp. 17-19 - 1 Review
        Renni: The Rescuer by Felix Salten
      21. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 20 - 4 Reviews
        Deed Without a Name by Dorothy Bowers
        Fracas in the Foothills by Elliot Paul
        The Shadow and the Web by Mary Allerton
        The Case of the Silent Partner by Erle Stanley Gardner
      22. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 21-22 - 3 Reviews
        Green Entry by F. Ruth Howard
        The Intellectual Lover by David Freedman
        Yankee Skippers to the Rescue by Felix Riesenberg
      23. Double-Crostics No. 349, p. 23
      24. Trade Winds, p. 24
    10. [+]
      December 7, 1940 Issue = 26 Articles
      1. Literature of the Brandywine by Henry Seidel Canby, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        The Fragments of Genius by Norman Holmes Pearson, p. 5 - 1 Review
        Mark Twain in Eruption by Bernard DeVoto and Mark Twain
      3. [+]
        Prince Charming by Frank J. Mather, Jr., p. 6 - 1 Review
        Roger Fry: A Biography by Virginia Woolf
      4. [+]
        Percy B. Shelley by Richard Aldington, p. 7 - 1 Review
        Shelley by Newman Ivey White
      5. [+]
        Europe's Tragedy in Seven Acts by William Henry Chamberlin, p. 8 - 1 Review
        Seven Mysteries of Europe by Jules Romains
      6. Broken English by Christopher Morley, p. 9
      7. The SRL Christmas List, p. 10
      8. Books Our Reviewers Are Giving for Christmas, p. 11
      9. Editorial, p. 12
      10. Letters to the Editor, p. 13
      11. Your Literary I.Q., p. 14
      12. [+]
        Anecdotal History of A River by Allan Nevins, p. 14 - 1 Review
        The Illinois by James Gray
      13. A Message for Today by George Gordon Lord Byron, pp. 15-17
      14. [+]
        Artistic Wilderness by Alan Devoe, pp. 18-19 - 1 Review
        Trail of an Artist-Naturalist by Ernest Thompson Seton
      15. [+]
        Dean of the News Camera by Linton Wells, pp. 20-21 - 1 Review
        Jimmy Hare: News Photographer by Cecil Carnes
      16. [+]
        Distilled Despair by Sara Henderson Hay, pp. 22-23 - 1 Review
        A Winter Tide by Robert Nathan
      17. [+]
        Scholar Sans Books by James Reid Parker, pp. 24-29 - 1 Review
        Lord Reading by H. Montgomery Hyde
      18. [+]
        The American as Critic by Jacques Barzun, pp. 30-35 - 2 Reviews
        A Study in Aesthetics by Louis A. Reid
        The Arts and the Art of Criticism by Theodore Meyer Greene
      19. [+]
        Americans in France by Richard A. Cordell, p. 36 - 1 Review
        Journey Through Time by Larry Barretto
      20. [+]
        Progressive Teacher by Howard Mumford Jones, pp. 36-37 - 1 Review
        Bronson Alcott, Teacher by Dorothy McCuskey
      21. [+]
        Virginibus Puerisque by Alfred Newell, pp. 38-40 - 13 Reviews
        This Is Freedom by Rhoda Louise Smith Nelson
        Big Knife by William E. Wilson
        He Went with Christopher Columbus by Louise Andrews Kent
        Lone Star Rising by Gertrude Crownfield
        We Called Them Indians by Flora Warren Seymour
        Walking on Gold by Phyllis Crawford
        Quest of the Cavaliers by Faith Yingling Knoop
        A Toast to the King by Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth
        Men of Power by Albert H.Z. Carr
        Clear for Action! by Stephen W. Meader
        Black Fire by Covelle Newcomb
        Fought for Freedom by Sidney W. Dean
        They Sailed and Sailed by Frances Margaret Fox
      22. Author Author!, pp. 41-44
      23. Come, Sweet Death by Judge Lynch, p. 45
      24. [+]
        The Criminal Record, pp. 46-48 - 8 Reviews
        This'll Kill You by Marion Randolph
        Murder Is a Serious Business by Elizabeth Dean
        The Affair in Death Valley by Clifford Knight
        Aunt Sunday Takes Command by Jefferson Farjeon
        Meet the Murderer! by Warden Lewis E. Lawes
        The Bride Wore Black by Cornell Woolrich
        The Second Mystery Book by Rex Stout
        I Wanted to Murder by Clarissa Fairchild Cushman
      25. Double-Crostics No. 350, p. 49
      26. Trade Winds, pp. 50-52
    11. [+]
      December 14, 1940 Issue = 19 Articles
      1. Nihilism, Literature, and Democracy by Louis J. Halle, Jr., pp. 3-4
      2. Your Literary I.Q., p. 5
      3. [+]
        Conversation Piece by Henry Seidel Canby, p. 5 - 1 Review
        Sapphira and the Slave Girl by Willa Cather
      4. [+]
        From Beleaguered England by Henry B. Kranz, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Britain Speaks by J.B. Priestley
      5. [+]
        Cook's Tour of Chaos by George Dangerfield, p. 6 - 1 Review
        And No Man's Wit by Rose Macaulay
      6. [+]
        Them Were the Days by Melville Cane, p. 7 - 1 Review
        American Vaudeville: Its Life and Times by Douglas Gilbert
      7. Editorial, p. 8
      8. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      9. Author Author!, p. 10
      10. [+]
        Return of the Native by Oliver LaFarge, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Hawk Over Whirlpools by Ruth M. Underhill
      11. Mother Nature's Apostle by J. Bryan, III, pp. 11-12
      12. [+]
        High-Hearted Refugee by Heinz Norden, p. 13 - 1 Review
        Second Wind by Carl Zuckmayer
      13. [+]
        And America Sleeps by George Catlin, pp. 14-16 - 1 Review
        Yesterday Is Dead by Stuart Cloete
      14. [+]
        Virginibus Puerisque, p. 17 - 3 Reviews
        Rowena the Skating Cow by Stewart Schackne and Fritz Richenberg
        My First Horse by Will James
        A Book for Jennifer by Alice Dalgliesh
      15. [+]
        Destination Undertermined by Linton Wells, p. 18 - 1 Review
        To Nowhere and Return by Joseph Hilton Smyth
      16. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 19-20 - 8 Reviews
        Kate Trimingham by Frances Frost
        Olives on the Apple Tree by Guido D'Agostino
        Mighty Mountain by Archie Binns
        Hillbilly Doctor by Elizabeth Seifert
        Such is the Kingdom by Thomas Sugrue
        Let the Earth Speak by Ann Steward
        Modern Wilderness by William Arthur Babson
        War Without Music by Peter Muir
      17. [+]
        The Criminal Record, pp. 21-22 - 2 Reviews
        The Cross-Eyed Bear by Dorothy B. Hughes
        Homicide Johnny by Steve Fisher
      18. Double-Crostics No. 351, p. 23
      19. Trade Winds, p. 24
    12. [+]
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      1. Picking the Author's Brains by Melville Cane, pp. 3-4
      2. [+]
        Washington via Case Studies by Henry Steele Commager, p. 5 - 1 Review
        Washington and the Revolution: A Reappraisal by Bernhard Knollenberg
      3. [+]
        Living Geography by Ellsworth Huntington, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Geography in Human Destiny by Roderick Peattie
      4. [+]
        Scandinavian Haven by Marius Hansome, p. 7 - 1 Review
        I Chose Denmark by Francis Hackett
      5. [+]
        Behind the Norwegian "Treachery" by Stuart Lillico, p. 7 - 1 Review
        I Saw It Happen in Norway by Carl J. Hambro
      6. Editorial, p. 8
      7. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      8. [+]
        Mr. Hawthorne Sans Armor by Norman H. Pearson, p. 10 - 1 Review
        Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Modest Man by Edward Mather
      9. [+]
        Epistolary Net by Howard Mumford Jones, p. 10 - 1 Review
        A Treasury of the World's Great Letters, from Ancient Days to Our Own Time by M. Lincoln Schuster
      10. [+]
        This Was Her Fight by Ben Ray Redman, p. 11 - 1 Review
        I Must Have Liberty by Isabel de Palencia
      11. [+]
        The Old Aragon by Ernest Boyd, p. 11 - 1 Review
        A Man's Place by Ramon J. Sender
      12. [+]
        A Panorama of Music by Paul Henry Lang, p. 12 - 2 Reviews
        Music in the Middle Ages by Gustave Reese
        The Record Book by David Hall
      13. Author Author!, p. 13
      14. [+]
        Over the Burma Road by Raymond Holden, p. 13 - 1 Review
        Land of the Eye by Hassoldt Davis
      15. [+]
        A Policy for the Americas by Peter F. Drucker, p. 14 - 1 Review
        Pan America: A Program for the Western Hemisphere by Carleton Beals
      16. [+]
        China's Romantic Trading Era by T.A. Bisson, p. 14 - 1 Review
        China Trader by Cornelia Spencer
      17. Your Literary I.Q., p. 15
      18. [+]
        Family of Frustration by Richard A. Cordell, p. 15 - 1 Review
        Light Sons and Dark by David Cornel DeJong
      19. Tools for Literary Workers by Carl P. Rollins, p. 16
      20. [+]
        Radio Grows Up by Albert N. Williams, p. 17 - 1 Review
        Fourteen Radio Plays by Arch Oboler
      21. [+]
        Towards Spiritual Preparedness by Baruch Braunstein, p. 18 - 1 Review
        The Great Hatred by Maurice Samuel
      22. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 19 - 4 Reviews
        The Deadly Sunshade by Phoebe Atwood Taylor
        Nine Lives Are Not Enough by Jerome Odlum
        The Trail of the Serpent by Cedric Worth
        Murder Goes to the Bank Night by W.G. Clarke
      23. [+]
        The Insides of Fascism by William H. Chamberlin, p. 19 - 1 Review
        Neither Liberty Nor Bread by Frances Keene
      24. [+]
        Bridges and Bradley by Andrew J. Green, p. 20 - 1 Review
        Correspondence of Robert Bridges and Henry Bradley, 1900-1923 by Robert Bridges and Henry Bradley
      25. [+]
        Yeats to Wellesley by Dudley Fitts, p. 20 - 1 Review
        Letters on Poetry from W. B. Yeats to Dorothy Wellesley by Dorothy Wellesley and W.B. Yeats
      26. Records in Review, p. 21
      27. [+]
        The New Books, p. 22 - 6 Reviews
        Pageant of Letters by Alfred Noyes
        A Victorian Rebel by Lloyd Wendell Eshleman
        The Road to Endor by Esther Barstow Hammond
        For Our Vines Have Tender Grapes by George V. Martin
        Claudia and David by Rose Franken
        The Secret Front by Paul Gallico
      28. Double-Crostics No. 352, p. 23
      29. Trade Winds, p. 24
    13. [+]
      December 28, 1940 Issue = 23 Articles
      1. Literature and the South by W.J. Cash, pp. 3-4
      2. Your Literary I.Q., p. 5
      3. [+]
        Armenian Picaresque by Henry Seidel Canby, p. 5 - 1 Review
        My Name Is Aram by William Saroyan
      4. [+]
        The Story of Tom Jackson by Allan Nevins, p. 6 - 1 Review
        I Rode with Stonewall by Henry Kyd Douglas and Fletcher M. Green
      5. [+]
        From Lincoln to FDR by John K.M. Tibby, p. 6 - 1 Review
        Presidential Elections by Cortez A.M. Ewing
      6. [+]
        Will Appeasement Work for Us? by Elmer Davis, p. 7 - 1 Review
        The Economics of Force by Frank Munk
      7. Editorial, p. 8
      8. Letters to the Editor, p. 9
      9. Author! Author!, p. 10
      10. [+]
        No. 1 Residence by Elizabeth King Phelps Stokes, p. 10 - 1 Review
        The White House: A Biography by Charles Hurd
      11. Authors at Christmas, p. 11
      12. Poem, p. 12
      13. [+]
        The Young Mr. Hendrycks by George Dangerfield, p. 12 - 1 Review
        This Is the Schoolroom by Nicholas Monsarrat
      14. [+]
        Hell on Earth by Fay Gillis Wells, p. 13 - 1 Review
        My Name is Million by W.S. Kuniczak
      15. [+]
        The Iron Voice by Palmer Harman, p. 13 - 1 Review
        Sumner Today by Maurice R. Davie and William Graham Sumner
      16. [+]
        Men and Morons by Homer W. Smith, p. 14 - 1 Review
        Why Men Behave Like Apes and Vice Versa by Earnest A. Hooton
      17. [+]
        "Heart of the West" by Alexander Cowie, p. 15 - 1 Review
        Books Alive by Vincent Starrett
      18. [+]
        A Modern Ploetz by Garrett Mattingly, p. 16 - 1 Review
        An Encyclopedia of World History by William L. Langer
      19. [+]
        Art Scholar's Feast by Frank J. Mather, Jr., pp. 17-19 - 1 Review
        Drawings in the Fogg Museum of Art by Agnes Mongan and Paul J. Sachs
      20. [+]
        The Criminal Record, p. 20 - 5 Reviews
        Case of the Violet Smoke by John Donavan
        Malice Domestic by Evelyn Cameron
        The Corpse at the Quill Club by Amelia Reynolds Long
        The Department of Queer Complaints by Carter Dickson
        The Saint in Miami by Leslie Charteris
      21. [+]
        The New Books, pp. 20-21 - 6 Reviews
        Wine on the Desert by Max Brand
        Mr. and Mrs. Meigs by Elizabeth Corbett
        Beyond German Victory by Helen Hill and Herbert Agar
        The Golden Throng by Edwin Way Teale
        Look at Life! by Lynwood M. Chace
        Parents Can Learn by Helen Ellwanger Hanford
      22. Trade Winds, p. 22
      23. Double-Crostics No. 352, pp. 23-24
2. [+]
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3. [+]
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4. [+]
  Issues of 1943 = 52 Issues, 1,364 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1944 = 53 Issues, 1,323 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1945 = 52 Issues, 1,450 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 1946 = 52 Issues, 1,694 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1947 = 52 Issues, 1,763 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1948 = 52 Issues, 1,977 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1949 = 53 Issues, 2,095 Articles
[+]
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1. [+]
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  Issues of 1951 = 52 Issues, 2,244 Articles
3. [+]
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4. [+]
  Issues of 1953 = 52 Issues, 2,423 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1954 = 52 Issues, 2,353 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1955 = 53 Issues, 2,081 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 1956 = 52 Issues, 2,219 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1957 = 43 Issues, 1,783 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1958 = 51 Issues, 1,869 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1959 = 52 Issues, 1,909 Articles
[+]
Issues of the 1960s = 10 Years, 464 Issues, 18,158 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 1960 = 50 Issues, 1,738 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 1961 = 51 Issues, 1,874 Articles
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  Issues of 1962 = 51 Issues, 1,924 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 1963 = 52 Issues, 2,013 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1964 = 52 Issues, 2,073 Articles
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  Issues of 1965 = 52 Issues, 2,221 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 1966 = 53 Issues, 2,178 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1967 = 39 Issues, 1,680 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1968 = 13 Issues, 521 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1969 = 51 Issues, 1,936 Articles
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Issues of the 1970s = 10 Years, 321 Issues, 9,823 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 1970 = 52 Issues, 1,880 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 1971 = 49 Issues, 1,650 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 1972 = 52 Issues, 1,514 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 1973 = 29 Issues, 867 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1974 = 25 Issues, 709 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1975 = 17 Issues, 494 Articles
7. [+]
  Issues of 1976 = 25 Issues, 766 Articles
8. [+]
  Issues of 1977 = 24 Issues, 694 Articles
9. [+]
  Issues of 1978 = 24 Issues, 671 Articles
10. [+]
  Issues of 1979 = 24 Issues, 578 Articles
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Issues of the 1980s = 6 Years, 45 Issues, 1,412 Articles
1. [+]
  Issues of 1980 = 16 Issues, 493 Articles
2. [+]
  Issues of 1981 = 12 Issues, 403 Articles
3. [+]
  Issues of 1982 = 6 Issues, 197 Articles
4. [+]
  Issues of 1983 = 5 Issues, 131 Articles
5. [+]
  Issues of 1985 = 4 Issues, 131 Articles
6. [+]
  Issues of 1986 = 2 Issues, 57 Articles