Essay

• Charles A. Beard — Corporations and Natural Rights
• John Peale Bishop — The Golden Bough
• R. P. Blackmur — The Expense of Greatness: Three Emphases on Henry Adams
• Ford K. Brown — Fathers of the Victorians
• Albert Guerard, Jr. — Robert Bridges
• Calvin B. Hoover — The Dictators March: From Political to Economic Totalitarian
• Herbert Read — The Artist as Individual

Fiction

• Leonard Rapport — The Night the Bucket Fell

Poetry

• Raymond Dannenbaum — Calling on a Dead Friend
• Lawrence Lee — Twenty-Four Hours
• Robert Penn Warren — Monologue at Midnight

Book Reviews

• Stringfellow Barr — American Dreams
• Robert C. Binkley — Post-War Europe
• Cary Johnson, Jr. — New Priests of Jefferson
• Eugene M. Kayden — Shapes of Things to Come
• Broadus Mitchell — Ten O'Clock Scholar
• Walter L. Myers — Englishry and Artistry
• Kerker Quinn — Literary Patterns and Prophecies