ISSUE DATE: October 30, 1943; Vol. XXVI, No. 44

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COVER: CALIFORNIA -- A REGIONAL INVENTORY. Cover photograph by Charis and Edward Weston from "California and the West," published by Duell, Sloan & Pierce.

ARTICLES:
CALIFORNIA -- SOURCES AND RESOURCES, Editorial by Edwin L. Sabin, Guest Editor of this issue.
AN EMBARRASSING PLENTY By Scott O'Dell. "Writers resolve the problem by evading it."
FROM (Bret) HARTE TO (William) SAROYAN By Paul Jordan Smith.
WHERE POETS ARE REBORN By Adelaide Wilson Arnold.
LOOKING BACK AT THE CRITICS.
THE DOUBLE GOLD RUSH By Anne Cameron.
Do WRITERS KNOW HOLLYWOOD? By Colonel Darryl F. Zanuck.
TuE HOLLYWOOD WRITERS CONGRESS By Walter Wanger.
LIBRARIANA IN CALIFORNIA By Althea Warren.
THE REDLANDS MOVEMENT By Lawrence E. Nelson.
THE PRACTICAL VARIETY By Mabel R. Gillis.
HISTORY ON FILE By Herbert Ingram Priestley.
HUNTINGTON AND HIS HOBBY By Dorothy Bowen.

REGULAR REVIEWS:
THE GROWTH OF AMERICAN THOUGHT, by Merle Curti, Reviewed by Christian Gauss.
OUR YOUNG FOLKS, by Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Reviewed by Bonaro W. Overstreet.
KATHRINE, by Hans Habe, Reviewed by Struthers Burt.
BRIGHT IS THE MORNING, by Robert Gibbons, Reviewed by Jonathan Daniels.
THE PASSING OF THE EUROPEAN AGE, by Eric Fischer, Reviewed by William S. Lynch.
HERE Is YOUR WAR, by Ernie Pyle, Reviewed by Hal Borland.
THE TOUGHEST FIGHTING IN THE WORLD, by George H. Johnston, THE CONQUEST OF NORTH AFRICA, by Alexander G. Clifford, Reviewed by Percival R. Knauth.

DEPARTMENTS:
LITERARY CRYPT: No. 19.
EDITORIAL.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
TRADE WINDS, by Bennett Cerf.
YOUR LITERARY I.Q.
DOUBLE-CROSTICS: No. 501.
DOUBLE-CROSTICS CLUB.

CONTRIBUTORS:
EDWIN L. SABIN, guest editor of this issue, is the author of some two dozen books dealing with Americana and the Far West, among them "Kit Carson Days," "With Carson and Fremont," "Gold Seekers of '49," "Opening the West with Lewis and Clarke," "Desert Dust," and "Klondike Pardners."

ALTHEA WARREN, Librarian of the extensive Los Angeles Public Library, is a past president of the California Library Association. At present she is the president of the American Library Association, which includes the United States and Canada. She was director of the Victory Book Campaign which collected many millions of books for the men and women in the armed forces.

DR. HERBERT INGRAM PRIESTLEY is Librarian-in-Chief of the Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, and professor of Mexican History at the University. He is a widely recognized authority upon Spanish-American literature.

PAUL JORDAN-SMITH is Literary Editor of The Los Angeles Times, where his leading scholarly reviews and other comment are a feature. He is a student of California regional literature.

MABEL R. GULLS is the long-time Librarian of the California State Library, Sacramento, where she succeeded her father in office. She serves a host of research workers, as indicated in her article in this issue.

DOROTHY BOWEN is a member of the staff of the Division of Exhibitions, Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, California.

ANNA CAMERON of Pasadena is a well-established fiction writer, whose creation, the Millie O'Malley family, in The Saturday Evening Post, is a popular feature of that magazine.

ADELAIDE WILSON ARNOLD Is a sister of the late John Fleming Wilson, novel and short-story writer. She is a poet in her own right, having published poems in The Yale Review, Atlantic, Poetry, and in English publications.

SCOTT O'DELL is a native Californian, and is the author of a California novel, "Women of Spain." He was in the infantry in World War I and is of a year's service in the Air Corps of War II. He is active in literary circles and is engaged upon another historical novel, one of Southern California.

DR. LAWRENCE E. NELSON is Director of the Division of Languages and Literature, and Chairman of the Department of English at Redlands. He describes his numerous activities there in the classification as "a liberal arts teachers in a liberal arts field in a liberal arts college."

WALTER WANGER, who writes an occasional column for SRL -- "Film Phenomena" -- is a motion-picture producer affiliated with Universal Studios.

COLONEL DARRYL F. ZANUCK, before he went into the Army to produce official films, was in charge of the Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation.

Credit for the line drawings and spot illustrations in the issue belongs to "California -- A Guide to the Golden State," published in 1937 by Hastings House, and compiled and written by the Federal Writers Project of the Works Progress Administration of the State of California.
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