ISSUE DATE: April 22, 1944; Vol. XXVI, No. 17

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COVER: Has W. Somerset Maugham left his innumerable readers up a tree? Wood engraving by Frances O'Brien Garfield.

[RARE and HISTORIC World War II, WWII WARTIME Edition!]

FEATURE: PRISON for AMERICAN GENIUS By Robert S. Lynd. "A report on our Greatest failure" Essay in GUNNAR MYRDAL's "An American DilemmaL The Negro Problem".

REVIEWS:
LEAD COVER article/review:THE RAZOR'S EDGE By W. Somerset Maugham -- Reviewed by Harrison Smith. [PLUS: in this issue, a FULL PAGE ad for this same novel!]

THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE PEACE By Nicolas John Spykman Edited by Helen R. Nichol -- Reviewed by Hans W. Weigert.
BALKAN JOURNAL By Laird Archer -- Reviewed by Stepl&en Bonsai.
A CENTURY OF POLITICAL CARTOONS By Allan Nevins and Frank Weitenkampf -- Reviewed by Harrison Smith.
YOUR WORLD TOMORROW By Donald G. Cooley and the Editors of Mechanix Illustrated Magazine --- MIRACLES AHEAD By Norman V. Carlisle and Frank B. Latham -- Reviewed by Waldemar Kaempffert.
THE FRENCH COLONIES By Jacques Stern -- Reviewed by Frederick Gruin.
THE LIFE AND WORKS OF THE HONORABLE ROBERT BOYLE By Louis Trenchard More -- Reviewed by Waldemar Kaempffert.
EDUCATION AT THE CROSSROADS By Jacques Maritain -- Reviewed by Ordway Tead.
HOTEL BERLIN '43 By Vicki Baum -- Reviewed by Ben Ray Redrnan.
NORTHWEST OF THE WORLD By Olaf Swenson -- Reviewed by Emil Lengyel.
PIPELINE TO BATTLE By Major Peter W. Rainier -- Reviewed by Squadron Leader Murray Harris.
THE LISTENING POST By Thomas B. Morgan -- Reviewed by Henry B. Kranz.
MORE BY CORWIN By Norman Corwin -- Reviewed by Harriet Van Home.
Paul Draper dances in santa Barbara, by Sara Kolb Danner, a Poem.

DEPARTMENTS:
STRICTLY PERSONAL By Struthers Burt.
EDITORIAL.
LETTERS.
TRADE WINDS By Bennet Cerf.
LITERARY I.Q.
THE PHOENIX NEST By William Rose Benet.
THE CRIMINAL RECORD.
DOUBLE-CROSTICS No. 526.

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ELISABETH OGILVIE, "High Tide at Noon"
BEN HECHT, "A Guide for the Bedevilled"
"It's a Woman's World", stories from Harper's Bazaar.
HARVEY SMMITH, "Nine to Five"
STEFAN ZWEIG, "The Royal Game" [FULL PAGE on BACK COVER!]
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