Essay

• John Peale Bishop — The Missing All
• Scott Buchanan — Surplus Value
• W. Y. Elliott — Prospects for Foreign Trade
• Ernest K. Lindley — Agenda for a Second Term
• Daniel Gregory Mason — Early Letters of Edwin Arlington Robinson: First Series
• Stark Young — More Encaustics for Southerners

Fiction

• Robert Penn Warren — Christmas Gift

Poetry

• Ben Belitt — John Keats, Surgeon
• George Marion O'Donnell — Before Dark
• Kathryn Worth — Songs for Solstice

Book Reviews

• R. P. Blackmur — The Stakes of the Game
• Robert P. Tristram Coffin — Poets of the People
• F. Cudworth Flint — A Cycle of New England
• Harold Hutcheson — Irresponsible Collectivism
• Edd Winfield Parks — Six Southern Novels
• Harold S. Quigley — America in the Far East
• Archibald Bolling Shepperson — More About Boswell
• Mangum Weeks — Artist and Backwoodsman
• Cuthbert Wright — The Mystery of Joan of Arc