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: September 7 1968; Vol LI, No 36
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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SR: IDEAS:
The Crime of Punishment, by Karl Menninger -- A psychiatrist explores our fascination with crime and our need for vengeance -- which perpetuate an expensive and futile approach to criminality.
The Anti-Ballistic Missile:
A Dangerous Folly, by David B. Inglis -- in the name of "safety," Congress may be opening a new round in the nuclear arms race.
Czechoslovakia: An Editorial.

SR: SCIENCE:
Public Policy and the Study of Man, by John Lear -- Does democracy need a new dimension in order to cope with scientific discovery and its technological consequences? Should a fourth branch of government be added to the existing triad? SR's science editor discusses two new studies in this direction.
200,000,000 Years under the Sea, by Bruce C. Heezen -- That existing continents are fragments of one or possibly two ancient proto-continents, and that these fragments are still moving slowly away from each other, is a widely accepted scientific belief today. But over what routes and periods of time has the drifting occurred? An exclusive report of a voyage intended to uncover clues on the sea bottom.
A Message from Lunar Orbiter V, by Will Jonathan -- is the moon made like a fruitcake? Letters to the Science Editor.

SR:BOOKS REVIEWED IN THIS ISSUE:
SR's Check List of the Week's New Books.
"The Constant Circle: H. L. Mencken and His Friends," by Sara Mayfield; "H. L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism, edited by William H. Nolte.
Book Forum.
Letters from Readers.
European Literary Scene, by Robert J. Clements.
On the Fringe, by Haskel Frankel.
"Israel Without Zionists: A Plea for Peace in the Middle East," by Un Avnery; "The Arab-Israeli Dilemma," by Fred J. Khouri.
"The Secret Search for Peace in Vietnam," by David Kraslow and Stuart H. Loory.
"Hubert: An Unauthorized Biography of the Vice- President," by Allan H. Ryskind; "The Drugstore Liberal," by Robert Sherrill and Harry W. Ernst.
"Daybreak," by Joan Baez.
"Brief Against Death," by Edgar Smith.
"The Occupying Power," by Gwyn Griffin (Fiction).
"A Haunted Woman," by Sanford Friedman (Fiction).
"Lilo's Diary," by Richard M. Elman (Fiction).
"Happy Families," by Saul MalofJ (Fiction).

DEPARTMENTS:
Phoenix Nest: Martin Levin Top of My Head: Goodman Ace Classics Revisited-LXX: Kenneth Rexroth Balzac: "novels hung on a monomania" -- characters "floating in a solution of objective paranoia.
Wit Twister No. 76.
SR Recommends.
Trade Winds: Herbert R. Mayes.
Letters to the Editor.
Literary Crypt.
Literary IQ.
Kingsley Double-Crostic No. 1796.

THE THEATER: Henry Hewes -- The new season in prospect.

MUSIC TO MY EARS: Irving Kolodin A Night of London Music, West End and South Bank.

PHOTOGRAPHY: Margaret B. Weiss Feininger's Trees -- The many moods of forest and woodland captured in lens and language.

BOOKED FOR TRAVEL: Paul Dickson -- Land of the Spanish Basques -- rugged and verdant, with a rich and well guarded culture.

WORLD OF DANCE: Walter Terry American Dance Festival at New London comes of age, with Limon in the limelight.

SR GOES TO THE MOVIES: Arthur Knight -- An extraordinary "Hunger" -- "the tremendous resilience and resources of the human spirit"; "With Six You Get Eggroll.".

TV-RADIO: Robert Lewis Shayon -- CBS's "The Prisoner": Trapped secret agent on screen -- trapped producer behind the scene?.

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