PARTISAN REVIEW
VOLUME XI, No. 4.
CASS MASTERN'S WEDDING RING
LONDON LETTER
FRANZ KAFKA: A REVALUATION
A REUNION
SONGS FOR A COLORED SINGER
FOUR POEMS
THE GHOST OF HENRY JAMES
BOOKS
FALL,
1944
375
Robert Penn Warren
408
George Orwell
412
Hannah Arendt
423
jean Stafford
429
Elizabeth Bishop
432
Randall farrell
436
Saul Rosenzweig
The Comedy of the Divine
456
Croce, the Cabbage and the Goat
460
Harold Rosenberg
Nicola Chiaramonte
Wylie Sypher
"Between Shall-I and 1-Will"
463
The Pitfalls of History
566
Symposium on Russell
Heroic Vitalists
Blossom of the Nettle
A Variety of Fiction
VARIETY
Impractical Man
Word Surrealism
Are You PM-Minded?
Movie Notes
469
471
473
474
478
479
481
482
484
486
488
491
Oscar Handlin
Gertrude jaeger
Richard Chase
Harvey Breit
Andrews W anning
Robert Gorham Davis
Katherine de M. Hoskins
F. W. Dupee
Gertrude Buckman
Isaac Rosenfeld
Daniel Bell
David T. Bazelon
Weldon Kees
Editors:
"\VILLL<\M PHILLIPS, PHILIP RAHv, DELMORE ScHWARTZ.
Managing Editor:
PEGGY
A.
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