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! Full contents below!]
ISSUE DATE: August 5, 1944; Vol. XXVII, No. 32
CONDITION: Standard sized magazine, Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in GOOD condition, removed from bound edition. Pages are clean and bright.(See photo)

IN THIS ISSUE:
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COVER: Twentieth Anniversary Issue: Literature between two wars; Cover design by Samuel Sugar.

FEATURES:
INTRODUCTION By Henry Seidel Canby.
THE MATURITY OF AMERICAN LITERATURE By Bernard DeVoto.
THE AMERICAN NOVEL OF THE TRUCE By Clifton Fadiman.
CONTEMPORARY CIVILIZATION AND LITERATURE By Paul Schrecker.
THE LITERATURE OF IDEAS By Jacques Barzun.
THE LANGUAGE OF HOLLYWOOD By James T. Farrell.
LITERATURE AND SCIENCE By F. C. Northrop.
TWENTY YEARS OF THE AMERICAN DRAMA By Joseph Wood Krutch. Illustrated by Albert Hirschfeld. [Multiple illustrations, done for this issue!]

SRL's FIRST EDITORIAL.
AND SUDDEN DEATH ... By George Stevens. THE BOWLING GREEN By Christopher Morley. SRL POLL ON NOVELS AND NOVELISTS.
SRL's CONTRIBUTORS.
POETRY'S LAST TWENTY YEARS By William Rose Benet.
THE NARRATIVE POETRY OF STEPHEN VINCENT BENET By Christopher LaFarge.
WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTED By Harrison Smith.
BEST SELLERS SINCE 1924.
DEATH TAKES A HOLIDAY By Judge Lynch.
PULITZER PRIZE BooKs SINCE 1924 .

POEMS:
POET'S EPITAPH By Alfred Kreymborg.
Low COUNTRY By Josephine Johnson.
SRL By Leonard Bacon.
CHATEAU DR MISSERY By Christopher Morley, reprinted from SRL August 7, 1926.
INVOCATION TO AN AUDIENCE By Christopher Morley, reprinted from SRL March 5, 1927.
SOMEONE REMEMBER, Arrua Us By Lt. Simons Roof (JG) USNR.
THE WAKEFUL NIGHT By William Rose Benet.
INVOCATION By Stephen Vincent Benet, reprinted from SRL June 11, 1927.

DEPARTMENTS:
EDITORIAL.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
TRADE WINDS By Bennett Cerf.
THE COMPLEAT COLLECTOR AND THE TYPOGRAPHIC SCENE By Carl Purington Rollins.
YOuR LITERARY I.Q. By Howard Collins.
THE PHOENIX NEST By William Rose Benet.
LITERARY CRYPT: No. 59.
CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE.
DOUBLE-CROSTICS: No. 541.
DOUBLE-CROSTICS CLUB.

Prominent Advertisements (Especially for new BOOKS) include:
JAMES A> WECHSLER, LABOR BARON (John L. LEWIS).
RAY JOSEPHS, "Argentine Diary"
WARD GREENE, "What They Don't Know"
JOSEPH STANLEY PWNNEL, "ROME HANKS"


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