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: NOVEMBER 27, 1948; Vol. XXXI, No. 48 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: "Literary History of the United States, Belles-Lettres, Prayers, Politics. (See page 9). En Route to A Legand, Two interpretations of Thomas Wolfe. RECORDINGS SECTION. Cover Drawing by Frances O'Brien. FEATURES: COVER articles: EN ROUTE TO A LEGEND: Two interpretations of THOMAS WOLFE. 1. By Edward C. Aswell. 2. John Skally Terry. REVIEWS: LEAD COVER article/review: LITERARY HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, Reviewed by Norman Holmes Pearson. MEREDITH Reviewed by Ben Ray Redman. THE WAR WE LOST Reviewed by Robert Lee Wolff. SOVIET RUSSIA AND THE FAR EAST Reviewed by Sidney Harcave. THE RISING SUN IN THE PACIFIC Reviewed by Philip A. Crowl. JAPAN DIARY Reviewed by Stuart Lillico. THE GOLDEN NET Reviewed by Nathan L. Rothman. THE LONG HABIT Reviewed by James Nelson, Jr. A CONVOY THROUGH THE DREAM Reviewed by John Woodburn. A JERSEYMAN'S JOURNAL Reviewed by Duncan Aikman. TOMORROW Is BEAUTIFUL Reviewed by Mark Starr. CHAMPLAIN: THE LIFE OF FORTITUDE Reviewed by Allan Nevins. WHERE POETRY STANDS Now Reviewed by Gerard Previn Meyer. PAUL VERLAINE Reviewed by Francis B. McCarthy. TH47 STREET Reviewed by A. M. Sullivan. THE BOOK OF CANADIAN POETRY Reviewed by E. K. Brown. COLLECTED POEMS Reviewed by William Elton. LARGELY FICTION Reviewed by Harry Bull. THE STAR CALLED WORMWOOD Reviewed by Edmund Gilligan. Westerling, by Douglas V. Kane, A Poem. --------------------------------- SRL RECORDINGS FOR DECEMBER: ARTICLES: What Sells Children's Records? . . . PHILIP EISENBERG AND HECKY KRASNO. The Records I'd Give . . . AS CHOSEN BY THE CRITICS. Mozart and the Cheesemonger . . . I. G. MATTINGLY. Another Side to the Collector Story . . . GEORGE SEAMAN. REVIEWS: Strauss: "Elektra" (Beecham) Moussorgsky: "Pictures" (Horowitz) Dohnanyi: "Variations on a Nursery Theme" (Smith) Mahler: "Lieder eines Fahrenden Gesellen" (Zarenska) Brahms: "Alto Rhapsody" (Ferrier) Handel: Arias (Baillie) Faure: "Pavane" (Sargent) Murrow: "I Can Hear It Now" . . . IRVING KOLODIN. Opera Roundup . . . ROBERT LAWRENCE. DEPARTMENTS: My Favorite Records . . . W. H. AUDEN. The Basic Library. RECORDINGS Reports on Classical Releases. The Other Side . . . THOMAS HEINITZ. Some Highs and Lows . . . EDWARD TATNALL CANBY. Hits and Misses . . . WILDER HOBSON. The Younger Set . . . MARIE L. MUTCH. RECORDINGS Reports on Popular Releases. Letters to the RECORDINGS Editor. Records Over the Nation. ----------------------- DEPARTMENTS: TRADE WINDS By Bennett Cerf. LITERARY I.Q. LITERARY CRYPT. EDITORIAL. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR. NEW EDITIONS By Ben Ray Redman. SEEING THINGS By John Mason Brown. THE FILM FORUM By Raymond Spottiswoode. BOOKED FOR TRAVEL By Horace Sutton. THE PHOENIX NEST By William Rose Benet. DOUBLE-CROSTIC No. 766. Prominent Advertisements (Especially for new BOOKS and RECORDS) include: MARTHA BACON, "A Star Called Wormwood" TENNESSEE WILLIAMS, "Summer and Smoke" "I CAN HEAR IT NOW", With Commentary by Edward R. Murrow, on COLUMBIA RECORDS. * 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 --