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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! Full contents below!]
ISSUE DATE: August 6, 1949; XXXII, No. 32
CONDITION: Standard sized magazine, Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in GOOD condition, cleanly removed from bound edition. Pages are clean and bright.(See photo)

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FIRST SECTION: BOOKS:
HENRY SEIDEL CANBY's Introductory essay makes the point that American literature so far has failed to live up to its promise at the end of World War II. "Footnotes to 1949".

CLIFTON FADIMAN says that at some point In the not very remote past a profound shift in our thinking took place that has resulted in "The Dedine of Attention".

HOWARD MUMFORD JONES believes that The American Malady" from which our literature suffers today arises in part from the writer's failure to consider.

the nature and needs of his readers.

BERNARD DEVOTO rejoices that out of all the American writing in the last few years "nobody has been able to isolate an official or prevalent view." "Time Without a Theme".

JOHN P. MARQUAND leads off the secturn "Looking Backwards" with a reappraisal of "This Side of Paradise".

LEWIS GANNETT, examining Sinclair Lewis's "Main Street" in the light of the present, sees that book, so bitterly attacked in its day, as an "affectionate story".

FRANCIS HACKETT, in another reappraisal, characterizes Ernest Hemingway's "A Farewell to Arms" as expressing the primitive mood of war.

JOHN MASON BROWN is even more impressed with Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" today than he was when the play was produced in 1938.

EUGENE O'NEILL, Jr., rereads Steve Benet's "John Brown's Body" and suggests that the Twenties were a period conducive to serious work.

LOUIS KRONENBERGER, contemplating H.

L. Mencken, believes he "sinfully abused" his role as a social critic but the role itself was a "culturally needed one." "An Ill-Will Tour of the American Mind".

WIILIAM ROSE BENET records some of his impressions of poetry during thirty years of reviewing, finds the danger now not propaganda but desiccation.

SECOND SECTION: IDEAS:
DAVID E. LILIENTHAL develops his conviction that the problem is not modern science but man himself. "Machines -- With and Without Freedom"...

DIXON WECTER and ELMER DAVIS differ on "The Power of Ideas in Our Time." Mr. Wecter regards ideas as "master switches," but Elmer Davis believes that ideas In our time haven't been as important as we had supposed and then adds, "Thank God".

NORMAN COUSINS writes about the "Protest Generation that became the Violent Generation before it was through." "Confessions of A Universalist".

HARRY A. OVERSTREET, matching titles with ideas, suggests a modest library of books that helped shape our age.

"Books Make the Times".

HOWARD W. ODUM is interested in "The American Blend" -- a combination of regional understanding and national unity.

FEATURES AND DEPARTMENTS:
BENNETT CERF does some digging into the newspaper files of August 2, 1924 (SRL's birthday), and comes up with some nostalgic nuggets for his department, Trade Winds.

DOUG ANDERSON provides an impressionistic. map of what has been Happening 'to literature since 1924. "One Man's Musings on American Reglonal Fiction".

CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, the Old Mandarin, offers two pages of "Translations from the Chinese." Drawings by Norkin.

The Editorials include a credo for SRL and comparisons of the two post-war world periods, with respect to both literature and ideas.

Library of the Quarter is a checklist of worthy books published since 1924, compiled under the auspices of the American Library Association by the Brooklyn Public Library.

THIRD SECTION: THE ARTS:
JOHN MASON BROWN reviews recent tragedy on the American stage and contends we need more dramas to "remind us of the worth of man the individual." "American Tragedy".

ROBERT E. SHERWOOD looks back upon his "knee-pants-drama?' days and decides he was seeking escape from a pretty sordid time. "Footnote to A Preface".

IRIS BARRY, reviewing a quarter century of motion pictures, asks what upsurges of ideas and techniques the present has to parallel the "dewy discovery" of the film as art.

JAMES THRAIL SOBY, after examining the factors tending to restrict American art to a peripheral importance, argues for a notional Secretaryship of the Arts. "Does Our Art impress Europe?".

IRVING KOLODIN sums up the lessons of twenty-five years of recording history as a continuous conflict between the "Inseparable re- creative art and the easily superseded reproduction".

HOWARD HANSON, Optimistic about American musical composition during the past twenty-five years, suggests the possibility of a Golden Age. "Flowering of American Music".

Three Credos -- by a playwright (MAXWELL ANDERSON), a critic (BROOKS ATKINSON), and a painter (LYONEL FEININGER).

SPECIAL SECTION: LITERARY ALBUM: Roger Butterfield (Of "The American Past" fame) collaborates with Roland Gelatt, of SRL, in bringlng together a special picture-album section covering highlights in American history since 1924. "From Babbitt to the Bomb".

POETRY:
Christopher La Fargo: "Prayer for Living and Dying".
Ben Ray Redman: "De Senectute".
Louise Townsend Nicholl: "And One Came Running.
Frances Minturn Howard: "Public' Gardens".
Babette Deutsch: "A Ballade for Reunion.

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