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The Seeing Eye and the Greedy Hand

by Jacques Barzun

The Harpers Monthly, May 1949, pp. 110-114

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    January 1949 Issue = 21 Articles
    1. Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-10
    2. Where to Shop, pp. 11-13
    3. Letters, pp. 14-22
    4. What Are Wars For? by Elmer Davis, pp. 23-29
    5. Eden by Julia McGrane, p. 30
    6. When Conan Doyle Was Sherlock Holmes by John Dickson Carr, pp. 31-39
    7. The Paper by Lloyd Frankenberg, p. 40
    8. Europe's Great Last Chance by J.K. Galbraith, pp. 41-48
    9. The Man Who Walked Through Walls by Marcel Ayme, pp. 49-54
    10. A Million Unknown Diabetics by C. Lester Walker, pp. 55-59
    11. Every Prospect Pleases, p. 60
    12. Morgan's Billion-Dollar Adventure by Frederick Lewis Allen, pp. 61-71
    13. Arma Virumque Cano by Jessamyn West, pp. 72-76
    14. Election Post-Mortem, p. 77
    15. How Kefauver Beat Crump by Charles Edmundson, pp. 78-84
    16. The Middle East Over the Wingtip by Wolfgang Langewiesche, pp. 85-93
    17. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 94-97
    18. The Vast Asian Front by Christopher Rand, pp. 98-107
    19. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 108-111
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      2. Federal Prose: How to Write in and/or for Washington by James R. Masterson and Wendell Brooks Phillips, ...
      3. The Miraculous Birth of Language by Richard Albert Wilson
      4. The Abuse of Learning by Frederic Lilge
      5. The Blood of Others by Simone de Beauvoir
      6. Bridie Steen by Anne Crone
      7. Out of the Silence by Patrick Mahony
      8. Tales of Horror and the Supernatural by Arthur Machen
      9. Great Novelists and Their Novels by W. Somerset Maugham
      10. The Lost Art of Profanity by Burges Johnson
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      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 116-122 - 9 Reviews
      1. The Sky is Red by Giuseppe Berto
      2. Stalingrad by Theodor Plievier
      3. The Young Lions by Irwin Shaw
      4. The Busy, Busy People by Samuel Spewack
      5. Old Mr. Flood by Joseph Mitchell
      6. The Old Beauty, and Others by Willa Cather
      7. The Great Year by Dilys Bennett Laing
      8. Escape from Vermont by James Gordon
      9. Green Mountain Farm by Elliott Merrick
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    1. Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-9
    2. Where-to-Shop, pp. 10-11
    3. Letters, pp. 12-18
    4. Highbrow, Lowbrown, Middlebrow by Russell Lynes, pp. 19-28
    5. Heil Free Elections! by Bernard Taper, pp. 29-36
    6. Evils of the Ball, p. 37
    7. Master Misery by Truman Capote, pp. 38-47
    8. Primavera by Sylvia Stallings, p. 48
    9. Washington's Armchair Correspondents, pp. 49-51
    10. Laing's Goat by John Ciardi, p. 52
    11. The Regal Life of Pierpont Morgan by Frederick Lewis Allen, pp. 53-62
    12. Who Has the Best New Submarines? by Fletcher Pratt, pp. 63-68
    13. Aspect of Love by Theodore Spencer, p. 69
    14. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 70-73
    15. The Nashua Story by Arthur W. Hepner, pp. 74-81
    16. The Strange World of the Skater by John Chamberlain, pp. 82-87
    17. The Sense For Style, p. 88
    18. The Best Bread by Bentz Plagemann, pp. 89-96
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      G.W.T.W. by George R. Clark, pp. 97-98 - 1 Review
      1. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
    20. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 99-102
    21. [+]
      New Books by Jacques Barzun, pp. 103-107 - 7 Reviews
      1. The Grand Design by John Dos Passos
      2. The Africa of Albert Schweitzer by Charles R. Joy and Melvin Arnold
      3. Albert Schweitzer: An Anthology by Charles R. Joy and Albert Schweitzer
      4. The Psychiatric Study of Jesus by Albert Schweitzer
      5. Basic Writings of Saint Augustine by Whitney J. Oates and Saint Augustine
      6. Man's Restless Search by Barbara Spofford Morgan
      7. The Chips Are Down by Jean-Paul Sartre
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      2. Hound-Dog Man by Fred Gipson
      3. The Season of Comfort by Gore Vidal
      4. The Golden Net by Ruby V. Redinger
      5. The Nightmare of American Foreign Policy by Edgar Ansel Mowrer
      6. The Embers Still Burn by Ira A. Hirschmann
      7. 1905-1928 by Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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    1. Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-13
    2. Letters, pp. 14-20
    3. World Government---"Yes, But..." by Chester Bowles, pp. 21-27
    4. Timid Billions by Edwin R. Embree, pp. 28-37
    5. The Artist by Ralph Kaplan, pp. 38-47
    6. Good News out of England by John W. Vandercook, pp. 48-53
    7. For My Son by John Frederick Nims, p. 54
    8. Tom Campbell: Farmer of Two Continents by Joseph Kinsey Howard, pp. 55-62
    9. The Voice in the Sand by James Rorty, p. 63
    10. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 64-67
    11. How Correct Must Correct English Be? by Norman Lewis, pp. 68-73
    12. Words for Time by Thomas Hornsby Ferril, pp. 74-75
    13. Fulton Lewis, Jr.: Man of Distinction by H.N. Oliphant, pp. 76-83
    14. Anniversary by Robert Brittain, pp. 84-85
    15. No Boat for Four Months by Maxence van der Meersch, pp. 86-97
    16. How to Keep Away from the Dentist by Herbert Yahraes, pp. 98-103
    17. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 104-107
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      New Books by Jacques Barzun, pp. 108-113 - 6 Reviews
      1. Literary History of the United States by Robert E. Spiller, Willard Thorp, and Thomas Herbert Johnson, ...
      2. Journal of Forgotten Days, May 1934-October 1935 by Albert Jay Nock
      3. The Undersea Farmer by Barbara Howes
      4. Enemies of Promise by Cyril Connolly
      5. Insight and Outlook by Arthur Koestler
      6. The Creative Critic by Carl Grabo
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      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 114-122 - 7 Reviews
      1. The Hollow of the Wave by Edward Newhouse
      2. The Springs by Anne Goodwin Winslow
      3. Scott-King's Modern Europe by Evelyn Waugh
      4. Tender Mercy by Lenard Kaufman
      5. Cheaper by the Dozen by Frank B. Gilbreth, Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey, ...
      6. Union Guy by Clayton W. Fountain
      7. Death Be Not Proud by John Gunther
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    1. Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-10
    2. Letters, pp. 11-20
    3. The Cold Peace by David Bernstein, pp. 21-23
    4. How to Read the Chicago Tribune by Milton Mayer, pp. 24-34
    5. The Seal by Kate Brackett, p. 35
    6. Why Medicine is Not a Science by Ian Stevenson, pp. 36-39
    7. The Kiss, the Tree, and the Bullet by Lael Tucker, pp. 40-51
    8. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 52-55
    9. Those Big Fat Cats by Alfred H. Sinks, pp. 56-63
    10. Selling Out, p. 64
    11. The Durban Deep by Martin Flavin, pp. 65-74
    12. Still-Life by William Jay Smith, p. 75
    13. What the War Cost by C. Hartley Grattan, pp. 76-78
    14. The Weeds by John Frederick Nims, p. 79
    15. Death and the Baroque by Aldous Huxley, pp. 80-86
    16. Down at the Dingy by J.D. Salinger, pp. 87-91
    17. What's Good About the UN by Edith Iglauer, pp. 92-98
    18. We Don't Know by Peter DeVries, pp. 99-101
    19. Don't Lock the Laboratory Door by Philip McCord Morse, p. 102
    20. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 103-105
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      New Books by Jacques Barzun, pp. 106-111 - 6 Reviews
      1. The Heat of the Day by Elizabeth Bowen
      2. The Valley of St. Ives by Arthur Herbert Bryant
      3. Portrait in Two Colours by Stuart B. Jackman
      4. The Freebooters by Robert Wernick
      5. The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle by Arthur Conan Doyle
      6. The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle by John Dickson Carr
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      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 112-122 - 10 Reviews
      1. A Wreath of Roses by Elizabeth Taylor
      2. The Girl on the Via Flaminia by Alfred Hayes
      3. The Hour of Truth by David A. Davidson
      4. The Wastrel by Frederic Wakeman
      5. Toasted English by Marghanita Laski
      6. There's Freedom for the Brave by Paul McGuire
      7. To Hell and Back by Audie Murphy
      8. The Oblong Blur, and Other Odysseys by Philip Hamburger
      9. The Second World War, 1939-45 by J.F.C. Fuller
      10. The Unknown Warriors by Guillain de Benouville
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    May 1949 Issue = 17 Articles
    1. Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-11
    2. Letters, pp. 12-20
    3. A New Job for the Atom by Gerald Wendt, pp. 21-27
    4. The Thin Rats Bury the Fat Rats by James Rorty, pp. 28-34
    5. All the News That Fits the Pattern by Fred M. Hechinger, pp. 35-42
    6. The Black Major by Richard Lee Marks, pp. 43-53
    7. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 54-57
    8. The Third Baby's the Easiest by Shirley Jackson, pp. 58-63
    9. Our Airsick Airlines by David Bernstein, pp. 64-73
    10. Africian Chief in an Oldsmobile by Martin Flavin, pp. 74-87
    11. The World Outside by Howard Maier, pp. 88-92
    12. A Warning on World Government by Warren R. Austin, pp. 93-96
    13. Father in Heaven, Let Us Be Reconciled by Allen Kanfer, pp. 97-98
    14. From Palestine to Israel by Eliahu Ben-Horin, pp. 99-105
    15. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 106-109
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      New Books by Jacques Barzun, pp. 110-114 - 10 Reviews
      1. Gainsborough by Eric Newton
      2. Pieta by Rogier van der Weyden
      3. The Taste of Angels by Francis Henry Taylor
      4. Art Through the Ages by Helen Gardner
      5. Aesthetics and History in the Visual Arts by Bernard Berenson
      6. Artist and Craftsman by Helmut Ruhemann
      7. The Great Pierpont Morgan by Frederick Lewis Allen
      8. Another Sun, Another Home by Rupert Croft-Cooke
      9. If I Were You by Julien Green
      10. The Servant by Robin Maugham
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      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 115-122 - 8 Reviews
      1. The Brave Bulls by Tom Lea
      2. Double Muscadine by Frances Gaither
      3. The Christmas Tree by Isabel Bolton
      4. The Lottery, and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson
      5. Southbound by Barbara Tunnell Anderson
      6. Macamba by Lilla Van Saher
      7. Days with Bernard Shaw by Stephen Winsten
      8. Marmee: The Mother of Little Women by Sandford M. Salyer
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    June 1949 Issue = 18 Articles
    1. Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-13
    2. Letters, pp. 14-20
    3. The Tribunal That Stirred England, Part I by Rebecca West, pp. 21-33
    4. The Defense of Western Europe by James P. Warburg, pp. 34-38
    5. What's in the Deep Freeze? by C. Lester Walker, pp. 39-47
    6. You Make Your Own Life by V.S. Pritchett, pp. 48-50
    7. Thirty-Seven Frontiers by Wolfgang Langewiesche, p. 51
    8. Truman's Three Wise Men by C. Hartley Grattan, pp. 52-60
    9. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 61-64
    10. Emily Post and the Marmosets by Fletcher Pratt, pp. 65-69
    11. Behind the Curtain: Hungary by John Gunther, pp. 70-79
    12. The Hunted by Don Gordon, p. 80
    13. Ordeal in Massachusetts by Arthur W. Hepner, pp. 81-89
    14. The Way It Is by James Jones, pp. 90-97
    15. After House by "Mr. Harper", pp. 98-101
    16. Instantaneous Time Exposure by Brian Howard, p. 102
    17. [+]
      New Books by Jacques Barzun, pp. 103-107 - 4 Reviews
      1. The Pollsters by Lindsay Rogers
      2. The Universe and Dr. Einstein by Lincoln Barnett
      3. An Outline of Psychoanalysis by Sigmund Freud
      4. Fear, War, and the Bomb by P.M.S. Blackett
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      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 108-112 - 8 Reviews
      1. His Human Majesty by Kay Boyle
      2. The Big Secret by Merle Colby
      3. Point of No Return by John P. Marquand
      4. Father of the Bride by Edward Streeter
      5. Cream Hill by Lewis Gannett
      6. The Twelve Seasons by Joseph Wood Krutch
      7. Thank God for My Heart Attack by Charles Young Harrison
      8. The Situation in Asia by Owen Lattimore
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    July 1949 Issue = 23 Articles
    1. Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-12
    2. Letters, pp. 13-18
    3. Truman & Co., Limited by John Fischer, pp. 19-26
    4. The South Has Changed by Mary Heaton Vorse, pp. 27-32
    5. The Most Difficult Job (Count Carlo Sforza), p. 33
    6. How Rich Can Your Children Be? by Milo Perkins, pp. 34-35
    7. The Limits of Treason (George Fielding Eliot), p. 36
    8. The Tribunal That Stirred England by Rebecca West, pp. 37-49
    9. Spring Song by Dorothy Berry Hughes, p. 50
    10. To the Country by Russell Lynes, pp. 51-54
    11. Fallen Star by Allen Kanfer, p. 55
    12. America Picks Up the Check by Bruno Foa, pp. 56-61
    13. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 62-65
    14. It Is I: Margaret Fuller by Edward Nicholas, pp. 66-75
    15. General Education in a Free Society (Joel Raphaelson), p. 76
    16. Italy: Battlefield for the Marshall Plan by Felix Perris, pp. 77-82
    17. The Dust by Brian Howard, p. 83
    18. The Education of Liu Weh-Chen by Robert Alan Aurthur, pp. 84-89
    19. Maine Was Never Like That by Franklin F. Gould, pp. 90-93
    20. Three War Poems by Alfred Hayes, pp. 94-98
    21. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 99-102
    22. [+]
      New Books by Jacques Barzun, pp. 103-107 - 10 Reviews
      1. Notes Towards the Definition of Culture by T.S. Eliot
      2. The Journals of Andre Gide, Vol. III: 1928-1939 by Justin O'Brien and Andre Gide
      3. Jean Barois by Roger Martin du Gard
      4. Sixteen Self-Sketches by Bernard Shaw
      5. Parnell to Pearse by John Joseph Horgan
      6. Poetry and Truth, From My Own Life by Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe and R.O. Moon
      7. Two Worlds and Their Ways by I. Compton-Burnett
      8. Buried for Pleasure by Edmund Crispin
      9. Walk the Dark Streets by William Krasner
      10. The Italian Madrigal by Alfred Einstein
    23. [+]
      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 108-114 - 7 Reviews
      1. The Husband by Natalie Anderson Scott
      2. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
      3. Walk Through the Valley by Zelda Popkin
      4. The Show of Violence by Fredric Wertham
      5. White Collar Crime by Edwin H. Sutherland
      6. With a Feather on My Nose by Billie Burke and Cameron Shipp
      7. Eleven Generals: Studies in American Command by Fletcher Pratt
  8. [+]
    August 1949 Issue = 21 Articles
    1. Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-12
    2. Letters, pp. 13-20
    3. The Lobby that Can't Be Licked by Robert de Roos and Arthur A. Maass, pp. 21-29
    4. Warmongers Are Made Not Born, p. 30
    5. Art for Art's Sake by E.M. Forster, pp. 31-34
    6. What Makes New England Go? by C. Hartley Grattan, pp. 35-41
    7. Fisherman: Hatteras by Sylvia Stallings, p. 42
    8. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 43-46
    9. The Battle of the Pentagon by Marquis W. Childs, pp. 47-52
    10. 1926 by Weldon Kees, p. 53
    11. The Old Comrades by Victor Wolfson, pp. 54-59
    12. Conservatism Revisited by Peter Viereck, pp. 60-67
    13. The Inner Eye by Lloyd Frankenberg, p. 68
    14. J. Harold Smith and the Dogs of Sin by James Rorty, pp. 69-75
    15. Magistrate's Court in Moscow by Margaret K. Webb, pp. 76-82
    16. Cancer and the Atom by Henry Schacht, pp. 83-87
    17. The Captain is Impaled by Nelson Algren, pp. 88-96
    18. Let's Abolish the Government by Bruce Catton, pp. 97-98
    19. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 99-102
    20. [+]
      New Books by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 103-107 - 4 Reviews
      1. The Oasis by Mary McCarthy
      2. Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
      3. The Stumbling Stone by Aubrey Menen
      4. A Mencken Chrestomathy by H.L. Mencken
    21. [+]
      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 108-114 - 5 Reviews
      1. Love in a Cold Climate by Nancy Mitford
      2. Elephant Walk by Robert Standish
      3. Limbo Tower by William Lindsay Gresham
      4. A Corner of the World by Robert Shaplen
      5. Last Call for Common Sense by James P. Warburg
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    September 1949 Issue = 24 Articles
    1. Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-14
    2. Letters, pp. 15-20
    3. The New Society by Peter F. Drucker, pp. 21-29
    4. Song by E.A. Muir, p. 30
    5. Russia's Secret Gibraltar by Erwin C. Lessner, pp. 31-36
    6. Two Famous Men Comment on Russia I, p. 37
    7. Dinner at the Beeders' by Joyce Cary, pp. 38-45
    8. Transient by Lloyd Frankenberg, p. 46
    9. The Fire Apes by Loren C. Eiseley, pp. 47-54
    10. Two Famous Men Comment on Russia II, p. 55
    11. No Business Like Show Business by John Houseman, pp. 56-67
    12. Nobody Hears You by Don Gordon, p. 68
    13. Widows and the Perilous Years by Zelda Popkin, pp. 69-74
    14. Television by Allen Kanfer, p. 75
    15. The Easy Chair by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 76-79
    16. The Indians of the Colorado River by Mario Prodan, pp. 80-82
    17. Overloaded Democracy by Gerald W. Johnson, pp. 83-86
    18. The Darkness by Weldon Kees, p. 87
    19. Still Life with Red Herring by Emily Genauer, pp. 88-91
    20. Where Is New England Going? by C. Hartley Grattan, pp. 92-98
    21. "Sot in Their Ways", p. 99
    22. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 100-101
    23. [+]
      New Books by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 102-107 - 6 Reviews
      1. The Pilgrimage of Western Man by Stringfellow Barr
      2. Strategy for Liberals by Irwin Ross
      3. Lead, Kindly Light by Vincent Sheean
      4. The Sure Thing by Merle Miller
      5. The Big Wheel by John Brooks
      6. A Rage to Live by John O'Hara
    24. [+]
      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 108-114 - 5 Reviews
      1. The Golden Apples by Eudora Welty
      2. The Mudlark by Theodore Bonnet
      3. Miracle at Cardenrigg by Tom Hanlin
      4. The Body by William Sansom
      5. A Matter of Taste by Richard Lockridge
  10. [+]
    October 1949 Issue = 16 Articles
    1. Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-14
    2. Letters, pp. 15-20
    3. Look What's Happened to California by Carey McWilliams, pp. 21-29
    4. The Curtain Isn't Iron by Joseph C. Harsch, pp. 30-36
    5. They Called It a Rest Camp by George McMillan, pp. 37-45
    6. Have Jews a Divided Loyalty? by Johan J. Smertenko, pp. 46-52
    7. Land's End by Weldon Kees, p. 53
    8. The Lady Walks by Jean Powell, pp. 54-64
    9. Due Notice To the FBI by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 65-68
    10. The British Rich Today by Virginia Cowles, pp. 69-73
    11. Is Management Legitimate? by Peter F. Drucker, pp. 74-79
    12. The Aristocrat by V.S. Pritchett, pp. 80-85
    13. Incident At Fernwood by John Bartlow Martin, pp. 86-98
    14. After Hourse by "Mr. Harper", pp. 99-103
    15. [+]
      New Books by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 104-111 - 9 Reviews
      1. The Book Industry by William Miller
      2. Don Quixote de la Mancha by Samuel Putnam and Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, ...
      3. The World Next Door by Fritz Peters
      4. The Condor and the Cows by Christopher Isherwood
      5. The Greenroom by Hamilton Basso
      6. The Crack in the Column by George Weller
      7. The Vital Center by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
      8. Stalin: A Political Biography by Isaac Deutscher
      9. Three Who Made a Revolution by Bertram D. Wolfe
    16. [+]
      The Year In Poetry by Lloyd Frankenberg, pp. 112-122 - 13 Reviews
      1. The Complete Poems of Robert Frost, 1949 by Robert Frost
      2. The Death of Captain Nemo by Robert Hillyer
      3. Selected Poems by Ezra Pound
      4. Selected Poems by William Carlos Williams
      5. Skylight One by Conrad Aiken
      6. The Wind of Time by Rolfe Humphries
      7. Versus by Nash Ogden
      8. Annie Allen by Gwendolyn Brooks
      9. The Grasshopper's Man, and Other Poems by Rosalie Moore
      10. The Beast in His Hunger by Harry Brown
      11. Collected Poems by William Empson
      12. Selected Poems by Sacheverell Sitwell
      13. Collected Poems, 1908-1956 by Siegfried Sassoon
  11. [+]
    November 1949 Issue = 21 Articles
    1. Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-16
    2. Letters, pp. 17-24
    3. The Catholic Controversy by George N. Shuster, pp. 25-32
    4. What Should Colleges Teach Women? by Mirra Komarovsky, pp. 33-36
    5. How to Get on in the World (Horatio Alger Jr.), p. 37
    6. A Long Farewell by Neil S. Boardman, pp. 38-44
    7. Ballade for Braque by Babette Deutsch, p. 45
    8. The Spectral Evidence by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 46-49
    9. Bargain-Basement Diplomacy by James P. Warburg, pp. 50-54
    10. Butcher's Dozen: The Cleveland Torso Murders by John Bartlow Martin, pp. 55-68
    11. Autumn Has Not Her Smile by Robert Brittain, p. 69
    12. Tronco by Niccolo Tucci, pp. 70-75
    13. The Rise and Fall of Dr. Fishbein by Milton Mayer, pp. 76-84
    14. Rx. (D.W. Cathell), p. 85
    15. The Insecurity of Labor Unions by Peter F. Drucker, pp. 86-91
    16. Ballad of the Little Old Man by Lloyd Frankenberg, p. 92
    17. Farewell to Moscow by Ignazio Silone, pp. 93-98
    18. Sonnet in Free Rhythm by Stephen Dunn, p. 99
    19. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 100-102
    20. [+]
      New Books by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 103-109 - 9 Reviews
      1. Male and Female by Margaret Mead
      2. The Science of Culture by Leslie A. White
      3. Writing for Love or Money by Norman Cousins
      4. A Writer's Notebook by W. Somerset Maugham
      5. The Art of Readable Writing by Rudolf Flesch
      6. Willa Cather on Writing by Willa Cather
      7. The Quintessence of G.B.S. by Stephen Winsten and George Bernard Shaw
      8. Loving by Henry Green
      9. The Woman of Rome by Alberto Moravia
    21. [+]
      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 110-122 - 7 Reviews
      1. It Was Like This by Anne Goodwin Winslow
      2. The River Journey by Robert Nathan
      3. The Way West by A.B. Guthrie, Jr.
      4. The Thread That Runs So True by Jesse Stuart
      5. Backwoods Teacher by Joseph Nelson
      6. Morning Faces by John Mason Brown
      7. Your Amiable Uncle: Letters to His Nephews by Booth Tarkington
  12. [+]
    December 1949 Issue = 25 Articles
    1. Personal and Otherwise, pp. 6-15
    2. Letters, pp. 16-24
    3. The Dogged Retreat of the Doctors by Milton Mayer, pp. 25-37
    4. How to Make an Atom Bomb by J.A. Campbell, pp. 38-41
    5. The Poet Covers His Child by E.A. Muir, p. 42
    6. The Wages of Virtue by Mario Prodan, pp. 43-45
    7. Peace of Mind in the Mysterious East, p. 46
    8. Uncle Sam's Friends Are Worried by Leslie Roberts, pp. 47-48
    9. Help Wanted---No Isms, p. 49
    10. The Almighty Dollar by Oscar Berger, pp. 50-51
    11. What We Can Now Do Under Point Four by Milo Perkins, pp. 52-60
    12. Norway Harbor by Stephen Dunn, p. 61
    13. The Hoarded Island by Clark Sherman Parker, pp. 62-67
    14. For the Wayward and Beguiled by Bernard DeVoto, pp. 68-71
    15. Social Security Poor by C. Hartley Grattan, pp. 72-77
    16. Suburbia, Of Thee I Sing by Phyllis McGinley, pp. 78-82
    17. Some Disconnected Notes About Drawing by William M. Ivins, Jr., pp. 83-84
    18. Back by Weldon Kees, p. 85
    19. Vega by John Cheever, pp. 86-94
    20. The People of the Pit by Alfred Hayes, pp. 95-96
    21. What's Become of Those Small Planes? by Albert Douglas, pp. 97-101
    22. After Hours by "Mr. Harper", pp. 102-105
    23. [+]
      New Books by Richard H. Rovere, pp. 106-115 - 9 Reviews
      1. Knight's Gambit by William Faulkner
      2. F.D.R.: My Boss by Grace G. Tully
      3. Twenty-Seven Masters of Politics by Raymond Moley
      4. Roosevelt and the Russians by Edward R. Stettinius, Jr. and Walter Johnson
      5. This I Remember by Eleanor Roosevelt
      6. Backgrounds of Power by Roger Burlingame
      7. Not So Long Ago by Lloyd Morris
      8. Women Are Here to Stay by Agnes Rogers
      9. Love and Death by Gershon Legman
    24. [+]
      Books in Brief by Katherine Gauss Jackson, pp. 116-121 - 10 Reviews
      1. The Plum Tree by Mary Ellen Chase
      2. West of the Hill by Gladys Hasty Carroll
      3. The Little Sister by Raymond Chandler
      4. Celia Amberley by Victoria Lincoln
      5. The Lonely by Paul Gallico
      6. The Eye of God by Ludwig Bemelmans
      7. The Autobiography of Will Rogers by Donald Day and Will Rogers
      8. The Art of Living by Saul Steinberg
      9. A Sort of a Saga by Bill Mauldin
      10. The Hours and the Ages by Edward Nicholas
    25. Books For Children by Frances N. Chrystie, pp. 122-130
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  Issues of 1961 = 12 Issues, 273 Articles
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  Issues of 1962 = 12 Issues, 260 Articles
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  Issues of 1963 = 12 Issues, 241 Articles
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  Issues of 1964 = 12 Issues, 274 Articles
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  Issues of 1965 = 12 Issues, 325 Articles
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  Issues of 1966 = 12 Issues, 273 Articles
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  Issues of 1967 = 12 Issues, 269 Articles
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  Issues of 1968 = 12 Issues, 228 Articles
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  Issues of 1969 = 12 Issues, 248 Articles
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  Issues of 1970 = 12 Issues, 221 Articles
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  Issues of 1971 = 12 Issues, 238 Articles
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  Issues of 1972 = 12 Issues, 222 Articles
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  Issues of 1973 = 12 Issues, 318 Articles
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  Issues of 1974 = 12 Issues, 274 Articles
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  Issues of 1975 = 12 Issues, 256 Articles
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  Issues of 1976 = 6 Issues, 123 Articles
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  Issues of 1977 = 12 Issues, 226 Articles
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  Issues of 1978 = 12 Issues, 234 Articles
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  Issues of 1979 = 12 Issues, 243 Articles
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Issues of the 1980s = 10 Years, 119 Issues, 2,472 Articles
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  Issues of 1980 = 11 Issues, 219 Articles
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  Issues of 1981 = 12 Issues, 231 Articles
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  Issues of 1982 = 12 Issues, 190 Articles
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  Issues of 1983 = 12 Issues, 211 Articles
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  Issues of 1984 = 12 Issues, 298 Articles
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  Issues of 1985 = 12 Issues, 255 Articles
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  Issues of 1986 = 12 Issues, 294 Articles
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  Issues of 1987 = 12 Issues, 263 Articles
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  Issues of 1988 = 12 Issues, 260 Articles
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  Issues of 1989 = 12 Issues, 251 Articles
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  Issues of 1990 = 11 Issues, 220 Articles
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  Issues of 1991 = 8 Issues, 151 Articles
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  Issues of 1992 = 12 Issues, 255 Articles
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  Issues of 1993 = 9 Issues, 183 Articles
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  Issues of 1994 = 11 Issues, 224 Articles
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  Issues of 1995 = 12 Issues, 221 Articles
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  Issues of 1996 = 12 Issues, 227 Articles
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  Issues of 1997 = 12 Issues, 213 Articles
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  Issues of 1999 = 12 Issues, 218 Articles
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  Issues of 2000 = 11 Issues, 178 Articles
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  Issues of 2001 = 12 Issues, 215 Articles
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  Issues of 2002 = 12 Issues, 199 Articles
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  Issues of 2003 = 11 Issues, 201 Articles
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  Issues of 2004 = 10 Issues, 180 Articles
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  Issues of 2005 = 12 Issues, 218 Articles
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  Issues of 2006 = 11 Issues, 174 Articles
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  Issues of 2007 = 2 Issues, 25 Articles
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  Issues of 2009 = 6 Issues, 130 Articles
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Issues of the 2010s = 1 Year, 2 Issues, 39 Articles
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  Issues of 2010 = 2 Issues, 39 Articles