TITLE: The Saturday Review of Literature
[Each Saturday Review of Literature issue covers books, arts, literature, movies, ideas, music, science, poetry and much more. Many regular features and writers, and most reviews are also essays on the subject at hand. ALL the latest books had to have an ad in The Saturday Review! ]
ISSUE DATE: October 5, 1968; Vol LI, No 40
CONDITION: RARE edition, standard magazine size, Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in clean, VERY GOOD condition. (See photo)

IN THIS ISSUE:
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COVER: Portrait of a declining town. Cover Photograph by NC. Cover Design by Pageant Studio.

SR: IDEAS:
Portrait of a Declining Town, by David Butwin -- Is small-town America disappearing? No, say the statistics. But with loss of Industry, transport, people, and, eventually, hope, a number of once -- thriving towns are on the skids. (COVER STORY).
The Peaceful Use of the Sea: A Guest Editorial, by Clark M. Eiehelberger.

SR: SCIENCE:
Autumn: The Vestibule of Life -- Its normal state is dormancy, facing two ways -- away from life or toward life's renewal.
How to Predict Earthquakes -- Quakes signify redistribution of mass in the planet's interior. Earth's axis is thrown off balance, causing the poles to shift. Scientists may thus acquire a uvarnung signal.
Opinion Polling in the U.S.S.R., by John Lear -- Soviet social scientists are asking the Russian people questions that haven't been asked since the 1920s. Is the Czechoslovakian crisis one of the results? The Brain in Evolution, by Carl C. Lindegren -- A possible explanation for he emergence of man as an upright animal.
The Historic Voyage of the Kane -- Leg 2, by Bruce C. Heezen -- More about tile trans -- Atlantic study of how the continents drifted.
100,000 Square Miles of Burning Rock, by Harry E. Wheeler and Howard A. Coornbs -- Earth's vastest known lava flow has been identified in the American northwest. But the volcano vent that accounts for it can't be found.
Letters to the Science Editor.

SR: BOOKS REVIEWED IN THIS ISSUE:
"New American Review #4," edited by Theodore Solotaroff.
Book Forum: Letters from Readers.
European Literary Scene, by Robert J. Clements.
"Wallace," by Marshall Frady.
"The Nature and Tendency of Free Institutions," by Frederick Grimke.
"The United Nations:
Sacred Drama," by Conor Cruise O'Brien and Feliks Topolski.
"The Public Image" and "Collected Stories: I,', by Muriel Spark (Fiction).
"The Department, by Gerald Warner Brace (Fiction).
"God Speed the Night," by Dorothy Salisbury Davis and Jerome Ross (Fiction).
"Jean-Jacques Rousseau:
The Quest (1712-1758)," by Lester G. Crocker.
SR's Check List of the Week's New Books.

SR: DEPARTMENTS:
First of the Month:
Cleveland Armory.
Top of My head: Goodman Ace.
Trade Winds: Herbert B. Mayes.
Letters to the Editor.
Literary Crypt.
Wit Twister No. 80.
Literary l.Q.
The Theater: Henry Hewes -- The Living theater back from exile.
World of Dance: Walter Terry -- City Center Joffrey Ballet -- from sweetly romantic to wild way-out, superb all the way.
Booked for Travel: Don H. Browne -- Palmy days in Tunisia -- a Rome away fioni Rome.
SR Goes to time Movies:
Arthur -- Knight "Finian's Rainbow" -- lighthearted magic; "Romeo and Juliet" -- younghearted excitenment -- "Pretty Poison" -- prescribed.
TV-Radio: Robert Lewis Shayon -- Commercials in Black and White:
integration hits' Madison Avenue.
Music to My Ears: Irving Kolodin -- A Week of Opera Openings, Metropolitan and State Theater.
Kingsley Double-Crostic No, 1800.

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