PARTISAN
VOLUME XIV, No. 4
LONDON LETTER
THE FUTURE OF SOCIALISM
THE CHILD IS THE MEANING OF THIS LIFE
INSTEAD OF FLOWERS
IN THE DARK BACKWARD
FILM CHRONICLE
SEQUENCE 1944-46
THE EGYPTIAN
THEATER CHRONICLE
LENIN AS PHILOSOPHER
ART CHRONICLE
BOOKS
Romontic Poets, Old ond New
"To So Little Spo ce"
Fiction Chronicle
A Modern Plague
Dionysus as Rotionalist
VARIETY
The Archongel 's Correspondent
Remorks on o Best Seller
REVIEW
JULY-AUGUST, 1947
341
Arthur Koestler
346
George Orwell
352
Delmore Schwartz
370
Fred R . Miller
371
Oscar Handlin
380
Robert Warshow
390
Louis .(ukofsky
392
Edith Weaver
393
Mary McCarthy
396
Bertram D. Wolfe
414
Robert Goldwater
419
Richard Chase
424
William Troy
427
Eli;:,abeth Hardwick
431
Justin O'Brien
434
R. C.
436
Gerald Sykes
442
Daniel Aaron
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WILLIAM PHILLIPS, PHILIP RAHV
Associate Editors:
WILLIAM BARRETT, DELMORE ScHWARTZ
Managing Editor:
CATHARINE CARVER
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