LOOK! -- Exclusive MORE MAGAZINES detailed content description, below! * 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! -- Exclusive MORE MAGAZINES detailed content description, below! * ISSUE DATE: MAY 20, 1939; VOL. XX, No. 4; New York, Saturday IN THIS ISSUE:- [Detailed contents description written EXCLUSIVELY for this listing by MORE MAGAZINES! Use 'Control F' to search this page.] * This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 COVER: "AMERICA IN MIDPASSAGE" -- "The essence of Dr. Beard's historical approach is a sense of flux and change and movement, a realization that Time (unincorporated) marches on. The platforms of both parties In 1932, he observes, implied a belief 'that American history had been closed; that the future, near and distant, would repeat some period of the past unnamed.' No such illusion will be retained by his readers" . . . (See page 3). Cover drawing by Wilfred Jones. ARTICLES, REVIEWS, ESSAYS, POEMS and other FEATURES: Writing Contemporary History By DOROTHY THOMPSON. NO COMFORT FOR OPTIMISTS By ELMER DAVIS. Essay Review of "AMERICA IN MIDPASSAGE", by Charles A and Mary R. Beard. [PLUS: FULL Page ad for this book, published by Macmillan.] HELEN SALZ, "Two Poems of Unsolicited Advice" SELDEN RODMAN: Reviews "Huntsman, What Quarry?", by Edna St. Vincent Millay. BEN RAY REDMAN Reviews "The Bridegroom Cometh by Waldo Frank. ALLAN NEVINS Reviews "America's Silver Age" by Gerald W. Johnson. STEPHEN VINCENT BENET: Words and Music. VIRGINIUS DABNEY Reviews "Carter Glass" by Rixey Smith and Norman Beasley. ROBERT DISRAELI Photographs of the P.L.N. Congress. GEORGE MILBURN Reviews "The Years of the Locust" by Nathanael West. Other Reviews by GEORGE STEVENS, CHARLES McD. PUCKETTE, ROBERT BALLOU, DAVID H. POPPER. REGULAR FEATURES: Editorials. Letters. The New Books. Trade Winds, by P.E.G. Quercus. Double Crostics, by Elizabeth S. Kingsley. Personals. Prominent Ads for new BOOKS (1/2 page or larger) include: JEAN GIONO, "HARVEST" PETER DE POLNAY's Angry Man's Tale WILLIAM SLOANE, "The Edge of Running Water" * NOTE: OUR content description is GUARANTEED accurate for THIS magazine. Editions are not always exactly the same, even with the same title, cover and issue date. This description copyright MOREMAGAZINES. 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 This RARE edition standard sized magazine, Approx 8oe" X 11", is COMPLETE and in VERY GOOD condition. (See photo) A great snapshot of the time, and a terrific Birthday present or Anniversary gift! [Especially for the readers on your list!] Careful packaging, Fast shipping, ALL GUARANTEED --