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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:
May 16, 1942; Vol. XXV, No. 20
CONDITION:
Standard sized magazine, Approx 8oe" X 11". COMPLETE and in GOOD condition, cleanly removed from bound edition. Pages are clean and bright.(See photo)
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COVER: "THE SOUTHWEST -- INVENTORY & SAMPLING". Cover by J. Bywaters.
THE SOUTHWEST: A CULTURAL INVENTORY:
THIS is the first of a series of special issues which have as their goal a cultural inventory of America. The series, to appear in alternate months, is projected in the belief that one of the most significant developments in recent years has been the growing importance of regional America, using the word "regional" in the sense of the numberless influences--geographical, traditional, economic, and all the rest--which, like soil deposits, leave their traces if not distinguishing characteristics upon a people and their self-expression. As such, regionalism has always been important in America, but one of the retarding factors in its growth and recognition can perhaps be traced to the fact that many American writers and artists have been in the habit of looking outside America for much of their subject matter and even their intellectual nourishment.
In recent years, however, especially under the pressure of its struggle for the preservation of all that its democratic creed holds precious, America seems to have become introspective. On the one hand, it has become aware that its affairs could never be considered apart from those of the rest of the world, and on the other hand, it has begun to examine its resources and liabilities with a new sense of appreciation and responsibility.
The approach of The Saturday Review, in keeping with the spirit of a general stock-taking and sampling, will be through a series of special issues focussing on our regional resources. We think the people best capable of editing such issues are the regional writers and critics themselves, much as they dislike the word "regional" (it will be noted that there is almost a conscious effort to avoid the word in the following pages!). We are therefore turning over the magazine to the first of our regional editors, John H. McGinnis and Lon Tinkle of The Southwest Review, The Dallas News book page, and Southern Methodist Unversity.
FEATURES:
THE SOUTHWEST: AN INTRODUCTION By Henry Nash Smith.
THE SINGING SOUTHWEST: Two STORIES By John A. Lomax.
THE CHANGING INDIAN By Oliver LaFarge.
THE PLAINS INDIAN AND THE WAR By Stanley Vestal.
PAUL. BUNYAN By John Lee Brooks.
THE SOUTHWEST IN FICTION By Rebecca W. Smith.
MISTER BEN LILLY: BEAR HUNTER EAST AND WEST By J. Frank Dobie.
TEXAS: ETERNAL TRIANGLE OF THE SOUTHWEST By Walter Prescott Webb.
MAN TO MAN: Two POEMS By Witter Bynner.
BOSS OF THE PLAINS By Lewis P. Nordyke.
UNIVERSITIES ON THE MARCH By Joseph A. Brandt.
SCHOLARSHIP COMES TO LIFE By John Joseph Mathews.
TEXAS AT WAR By George Sessions Perry.
A LITERARY MAP OF THE SOUTHWEST By Fanita Lattier.
SO LITTLE FREEDOM: A NEW MEXICAN STORY By Paul Horgan.
NEW MEXICANA By E. L. DeGolyer.
DRAMA OF THE SOUTHWEST By John William Rogers.
REVIEWS:
AN APACHE LIFE-WAY, by Morris Edward Opler, Reviewed by Oliver LaFarge.
THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A DURABLE SINNER, by Owen P. White, Reviewed by Herbert Gambrell.
THE MAN WHO SOLD LOUISIANA. by E. Wilson Lyon, Reviewed by Lott Tinkle.
THREE NEW MEXICO CHRONICLES: The Exposicion of Don Pedro Bautista Pino, The Ojeada of Lic. Antonio Barreiro, Additions by Don Jose Agustln de Escudero, Reviewed by Alfred B. Thomas.
STAR OF THE WILDERNESS, by Kane Wilson Baker, Reviewed by Sam Achesot.
THREE SOUTHWEST PLAYS Reviewed by Albert N. Williams.
BILLY KING'S TOMBSTONE, by C. L. Sonnischsen, Reviewed by Frank C. Lockwood.
OLD MCDONALD HAD A FARM, by Angus McDonald, Reviewed by Phil Stong.
SUN CHIEF: TILE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A H0PI INDIAN, by Leo W. Simmons, Reviewed by T. N. Campbell.
COW COUNTRY, by Edward Everett Dale, Reviewed by Wayne Card.
ASHES OF GOLD, by Helen Virginia Botsford, Reviewed by Floyd Stovell.
NO LIMITS BUT THE SKY, by Mary B. Kidder, Reviewed by Claude C. Albritton, Jr.
THE CONTRIBUTORS:
JOHN H. MCGINNIS, editor of this issue, has been the editor since 1927 of The Southwest Review, and the literary editor of The Dallas News since 1923. He is professor of English at Southern Methodist University. Assisting him as editor of this issue is Lon Tinkle, of the faculty of Southern Methodist University, who has recently joined Mr. McGinnis in editing the book page of The Dallas News.
Some six or eight years ago the succession of books appearing from the University of Oklahoma Press began to draw wide attention by reason of the quality of their scholarship and the general interest which despite their regional character marked the publications. So excellent was the publishing done by JOSEPH A. BRANDT, director of the Press, that before long he had won national recognition. The Princeton University Press, then in need of a head, drew him to the East and there Mr. Brandt remained as its director until last year the University of Oklahoma called him to its presidency. A Rhodes scholar, Mr. Brandt began his career on the Tulsa Tribune from which he went in only two steps to his present position of responsibility.
One of that group of scholars on whom Kittredge of Harvard put his indelible impress, JOHN LEE BROOKS has carried his interest in folk-lore and the ballad to his teaching in Texas. His courses in those subjects lend distinction to Southern Methodist College of whose English staff he is a member.
Oil and literature mix well in the case of E. L. DE GOLYER, who has found time to make a specialty of both. An engineer and oil producer who has won numerous scientific awards and who is a past president of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Mr. De Golyer, is at pres- ent working with the Bureau of Petroleum Coordination in Washington. He is also a prominent book collector. Of particular note is his library of works on the Southwest.
The reputation of J. FRANK DOBIE as a professor of English has penetrated far beyond the confines of his own state and of the University of Texas where his course, Life and Literature of the Southwest, attracts hundreds of students. i-Ic is, too, a prolific author who has had a national public for his numerous books of which "Coronado's Children," Tales of the Monte," and "The Longhorns" are among the best known. Mr. Dobie has for the present put aside his writing as relatively unimportant in view of the war.
Though PAUL HORGAN's name is now definitely associated with the Southwest and with the New Mexico Military Institute of which he is librarian, his first literary success was won with "The Fault of Angels," a novel the scene of which was laid in Rochester, N. Y., and which deals with music and musicians. Mr. Horgan has recently completed a new novel, and at present in collaboration with Maurice Garland Fulton, is working on new Gregg papers, eventually to result in an annotated "Commerce of the Prairies."
OLIVER LAFARGE, whose "Laughing Boy," a novel of Indian life, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1929, is a practising ethnologist who has had a decisive part in the formation of the Government's Indian policy. His dual interests--in literature and ethnology--are' both to have representation this summer in new books, the first in a novel entitled "The Copper Pot" and the second in the symposium on Indian policy which he is editing for the University of Oklahoma Press. Mr. LaFarge makes his home alternately in New York and Santa Fe.
FANITA LANIER, who drew the center spread literary map of the Southwest, is a Dallas artist and illustrator, who has a particular penchant for maps with symbolic decoration.
JOHN A. LOMAX, like John Lee Brooks, a disciple of the late George Lyman Kittredge, began collecting ballads at a time when the text-books said there were no native American folk songs. "Cowboy Songs and Ballads," first issued in 1910, has been through many editions and started hundreds of collectors on their quest. In recent years, Lomax (working with his son, Alan Lomax) has made a survey of American balladry under the sponsorship of the Library of Congress.
JOHN JOSEPH MATHEWS is the Indian (Osage) novelist whose Book-of-the-Month Club novel, "Wah'kon-tah," got the young University of Oklahoma Press out of the groove of merely academic publishing.
LEWIS T. NORDYKE is on the staff of Gene Howe's Amarillo Globe.
Novelist GEORGE SESSIONS PERRY ("Hold Autumn in Your Hand") suffered injuries in an accident last summer which kept him out of military service. Intensely interested in the war, he has the job of getting to the public the spirit of the Air Corps. He has a book coming in the Autumn which Perry wants to call "Rich Rambunctious Texas." The publishers are casting about for a calmer title.
JOHN WILLIAM ROGERS is a Dallas journalist and playwright. His latest play is "Where the Dear Antelope Play.".
HENRY NASH SMITH, member of the English staff at Southern Methodist University, is this academic year visiting professor at the University of Texas. Since 1927 he has been one of the active editors of the Southwest Review.
REBECCA SMITH, a Kentuckian, is an English professor at the Texas Christian University, Fort Worth. She is the author or editor of numerous articles and books on the Southwest in legend and history.
In the University of Oklahoma, STANLEY VESTAL is Dr. W. S. Campbell of the English faculty. He first made his reputation with a biography of Kit Carson in 1928. FIis list, now a dozen titles long, will be augmented this summer by a biography of Bigfoot Wallace.
WALTER PRESCOTT WEBB, professor of history at the University of Texas, is known among scholars for his work in economic history, "The Great Plains." His book, "The Texas Rangers," has had a wide public, for Webb is an exemplar of the theory that historical writing can be scientific without being dull.
SAM ACHESON is the author of a recently published history of The Dallas Morning News, on which he is an editorial writer. Mr. Acheson is also the author of a play, "We Are Besieged."
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