PARTISAN REVIEW
VoLUME
IX,
No.
5
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER,
1942
THE WORLD HISTORIANS
354
Karl Korsch
THE TENDENCY OF HISTORY
372
Henry Adams
FERRERO AND THE DECLINE OF CIVILIZATIONS
379
Ignazio Silone
POEMS
The Son of God
384
Harvey Breit
The Statues in Parliament Square
386
Julian Symons
Reflections in Bed
387
Julian Symons
IN MEMORY: L. D. TROTSKY
388
Victor Serge
THE PROFESSION OF POETRY
392
Harold Rosenberg
PACIFISM AND THE WAR:
Jt
Controversy
414
D. S. Savage
George
~oodcock
Alex Comfort
George Orwell
BOOKS
Old Methods, New Horizons
422
F. 0. Mauhiessen
A Slum on the Way to the End of the Night 426
Gertrude Buckman
Confound the Wiseguy
428
H. J. Kaplan
Locating the Enemy
1.
The Nazi Behemoth Dissected
432
C.
~right
Mills
2. Something New on the New Order
437
J. R. Stanwell
With the Little Mags
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Harvey Breit
LETTERS
445
CONTRIBUTORS
413
Editors: CLEMENT GREENBERG, DWIGHT MACDONALD, GEORGE L. K.
MORRIS, WILLIAM PHILLIPS, PHILIP RAHV. Business Manager: NANCY
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