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: JULY 21, 1956; Vol. XXXIX, No. 29
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: GEORGE BERNARD SHAW: ONE HUNDREDTH ANNIVERSARY. Wood Engraving by Frances O'Brien, Reprinted from SR of July 22, 1944.

SR/IDEAS:
GBS's 100th Birthday:
Lines for a 100th Birthday, a poem by JOHN MASEFIELD.
Spokesman for Vitality, an appraisal at mid-century by David Daiches.
Shaw as H. G. Wells saw him: An obituary written during Shaw's lifetime.
Bibliography: BGS between covers.
Discography: GBS on Records.
An Open letter to GBS, by Joseph Wood Krutch.
BGS: His long and colorful life as a playwright, a parlor politician and a prophet enlivened three generations. [Text and photos].
Food for a Better World: An Editorial.

SR/BOOKS:
BOOK OF THE WEEK: The Seven Islands, by Jon Godden, Reviewed by John Frederick Muehl. (About the author, by Bernard Kalb, and a small photo.)

Old Yeller, by Fred Gipson, Reviewed by Oliver La Farge. "...vivid, Hilarious, prime Americana."

Manjiro, by Hisakazu Kaneko, Reviewed by Faubion Bowers.
To the Golden Shore, by Courtney Anderson, Reviewed by Bradford Smith.
The Gods Depart, by Kathleen Dickenson Mellen, Reviewed by Darwin Teilhet.
The Publie Arts, by Gilbert Seldes, Reviewed by Hollis Alpert.
The Funny Men, by Steve Allen, Reviewed by Allen Churchill.
David Crockett, by James Atkins Shackford, Reviewed by Walter Blair.
The Tragic Days of Billy the Kid, by Frazier Hunt, Reviewed by Stanley Vestal.
Mark Hopkins and the Log, by Frederick Rudolph, Reviewed by Claude M. Fuess.
What Makes a College? by Cornelia Meigs, Reviewed by Elizabeth Gray Vining.

SR/DEPARTMENTS:
Trade Winds.
Letters to the Editor.
Literary I. Q.
Broadway Postscript.
SR Goes to the Movies.
TV and Radio.
Music to My Ears.
Booked for Travel.
Literary Crypt.
Books for Young People.
Kingsley Double-Crostic No. 1165.

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