Lords of the Ring

1956/01/28 —
Front cover features “The thirteen-year-old Mozart at the harpsichord”

Contents as follows:

IDEAS

United Nations 1956: An Inventory by James T. Shotwell

The Best Investment on Earth – An Editorial

Mozart After 200 Years

BOOKS:

The Lords of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien – An Essay-Review by Louis J. Halle

Coil of the Serpent by Dexter Allen – Reviewed by Edward Fuller

Aspects of Love by David Garnett – Reviewed by J.F. McCrindle

The Secret of the Hittites by C. W. Ceram – Reviewed by C.A. Robinson, Jr.

On The Track of the Prehistoric Man by Herbert Kuhn – Reviewed by Paul S. Wingert

UN: The First Ten Years by Clark M. Eichelberger
The United Nations: Planned Tyranny by V. Orvall White
The UN Record: Ten Fateful Years for America by Chesley Manly
-An Essay-Review by Lionel Gelber

The United States and Asia by Lawrence H. Battistini – Reviewed by Harold H. Fisher

As If by John Ciardi — Reviewed by I.L. Salomon

Hands Laid Upon the Wind by Bonaro W. Overstreet – Reviewed by J.S. Bixler

Lincoln’s Sons by Ruth Painter Randall — Reviewed by Harry E. Pratt

Profiles in Courage by John F. Kennedy – Reviewed by Harry Barnard

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

Music to My Ears by Irving Kolodin

Kinsley Double-Crostic No. 1140