ISSUE DATE: December 31, 1949; Vol XXXII, No 53

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COVER: The Summing-UP: In Fiction: A. B. GUTHRIE, JR., whose "The Way West" was "one of the delights during 1949"
Non-Fiction: ELEANOR ROOSEVELT, whose "This I Remember" "added information and interpretation of inestimable value" (see page 5). Photo of Eleanor Roosevelt by Karsh.

FEATURES:
THE LITERARY SUMMING-UP BY KARL SCHRIFTGIESSER.
MOST DESERVING MURDERS OF 1949 By JUDGE LYNCH.

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SRL RECORDINGS [SPECIAL SECTION], January 1950:
ARTICLES:
Lost in the Stars of Broadway ... HAROLD CLURMAN.
Best of the Year -- 1949.

REVIEWS:
Bartok: "Music for Strings, Percuscussion, and Celesta" (Byrns); Schubert: Symphony No. 7 (Mengelberg); Brahms: Sonata in F (Katchen); Schumann: "Fantasia' (Firkusny); Mendelssohn: "Variations Serieuses" (Renard) Gershwin: "Second Rhapsody" (Levant); Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Kapell); Britten: Carols" (Shaw) ... IRVING KOLODIN.

DEPARTMENTS:
Looking Backwards ... C. G. BURKE.
RECORDINGS Reports on Classical Releases.
Hits and Misses ... WILDER HOBSON.
Recordings for The Young ... CHARLES LEONHARD.
Some Highs and Lows ... EDWARD TATNALL CANBY.
The Other Side ... THOMAS HEINITZ & ROLAND GELATT.
RECORDINGS Reports on Popular Releases.
Letters to the RECORDINGS Editor.

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BOOK REVIEWS:
THE HUMAN NATURE OF PLAYWRITING, Reviewed by Arthur Miller.
THE THEATRE BOOK OF THE YEAR, 1948-1949, Reviewed by Richard Watts, Jr.
A WOMAN OF PARTS, Reviewed by Russell Rhodes.
IVAN THE TERRIBLE, Reviewed by D. Fedotoff White .
PERICLES AND ATHENS; CONSTANTINE AND THE CONVERSION OF EUROPE; RALEIGH AND THE BRITISH EMPIRE; WARREN HASTINGS AND BRITISH INDIA; THOMAS JEFFERSON AND AMERICAN DEMOCRACY; ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE UNITED STATES, Reviewed by Geoffrey Bruun.
A HISTORY OF ENGLAND, Reviewed by Crane Brinton.
THE PEACEABLE KINGDOM, Reviewed by Dale L. Morgan.
LITTLE BOY LOST, Reviewed by Evelyn Eaton.
GENTIAN HILL, Reviewed by Josephine Lawrence.
AMERICAN HEARTWOOD; DESPERATE MEN, Reviewed by Dale L. Morgan.
A DIARY FROM DIXIE, Reviewed by dlfred Hoyt Bill.
YEAR 1949, Reviewed by Jdhn T. Winterich.
MUSIC IN THE NATION, Reviewed by Cecil Smith.

DEPARTMENTS:
TRADE WINDS By Bennett Cerf.
LITERARY SAMPLER.
LITERARY CRYPT.
EDITORIAL.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
LITERARY I. Q.
SEEING THINGS By John Mason Brown.
NEW EDITIONS By Ben Ray Redman.
THE PHOENIX NEST By William Rose Benet.
BOOKED FOR TRAVEL By Horace Sutton.
THE FILM FORUM By Cecile Starr.
DOUBLE-CROSTIC No. 823.
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