1956/02/11 --
Front cover features Artur Rubinstein

Contents as follows:

IDEAS

  • Mr. Lincoln Visits Richmond by Richard Hanser
  • Mencken 1880-1956 by Gerald W. Johnson
  • The Poverty of Imitation: An Editorial
  • Rubinstein, Music and Piano Playing by Irving Kolodin
  • Rousseau: Totalitarian? by J. Salwyn Schapiro
  • BOOKS:

  • The Capri Letters by Mario Soldati - Reviewed by Harrison Smith
  • The Frozen Jungle by Lawrence Earl - Reviewed by Walter Havighurst
  • The Strong Hand by Michael Blankfort - Reviewed by Nathan Rothman
  • A Forest of Tigers by Robert Shaplen - Reviewed by J.G. Hitrec
  • China: New Age and New Outlook by Pin-Chia Kuo - Reviewed by Kenneth Scott Latourette
  • The Rebuilding of Italy by Muriel Grindrod - Reviewed by Michael T. Florinsky
  • The Five-Dollar Goldpiece by Orville Prescott - Reviewed by Robert Halsband
  • Mrs. Fiske and the American Theatre by Archie Binns -- Reviewed by Alan S. Downer
  • Dreaming of a White Bonnet -- Reviews by Helen McCully
  • DEPARTMENTS:

  • Trade Winds by Bennett Cerf
  • Literary I.Q.
  • Literary Crypt
  • Letters to the Editor
  • Broadway Postscript by Henry Hewes
  • SR Goes to the Movies by Hollis Alpert
  • Booked for Travel by Horace Sutton
  • Music to My Ears by Irving Kolodin
  • Kinsley Double-Crostic No. 1142