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This article presents a list of books published in 1971 by writers who have appeared in the 1971 issue of the journal "The Nation." Some of the books are "Rules for Radicals," "History of the Irish Trade Unions," "The Best of Thoreau's Journals," "Holy War in Belfast," "Indian Mountain & Other Poems," "Words From the House of the Dead: An Anthology of Prison Writings From Soledad," "The Open Decision: The Contemporary American Novel and Its Intellectual Background," and "The Three-Chambered Heart."

This article lists books which have been published in 1970 by writers who have appeared in the periodical "The Nation" this year. Some of the books listed are "Violent America: The Movies 1946-1964," by Lawrence Alloway; "Politics and Environment," by Walt Anderson; "Meditations," by David Antin; "The Press and the Cold War," by James Aronson; "Out From Under," by Robert E. Burger.

The article focuses in the organization Accuracy in Academia. The organization seeking to root out the dissemination of "disinformation or misinformation" by radical professors. The organization's first newsletter reported on an unidentified Midwestern professor whose lectures on Latin American history criticized U.S. policy in the region. The target of A.I.A.'s March newsletter, its third, was Linda Arnold, a historian at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia. Although A.I.A. focused on Arnold as a result of a student complaint, the newsletter did not attack anything she said in class.

The authors offers their views on progressive opinion journals at universities. They notes that political opinions are forming and campus newspapers are framing the debate. For students, the campus media are their first and often only news source while for progressive students, the alternative campus media are also an important rallying point. The authors also mentions that alternative campus papers can stimulate people to move their thinking in new directions, put topics on the campus agenda and shift campus discourse to the left. INSET: A Once-Bright Star Dims.

Presents letters to the editor published in this issue of the periodical "The Nation." Reference to the future of national banknote system; Information related to various periodicals circulated in the U.S.

This article presents information on the closing down of many publishing houses which published British periodicals. Since the end of last year more than twenty-three journals have ceased publication or have merged with others, or have appeared less frequently than they did. All of them represented an extraordinary diversity of opinion and interest. The basic trouble causing the closure is the cost of paper. There are many types of paper, from newsprint to art paper, and the rise in cost varies from 100 to 160 percent, but the difficulties are also due to advertising fluctuations.

For a long time Americans have been regarded as magazine readers, in contrast to book-reading Europeans. The result has been, as William Miller put it in "The Book Industry," that "publishing original trade books in America, especially adult books, has ordinarily been too shaky a business to stand by itself," and that most of the thousand-odd American bookstores have been perennially insolvent. But last year the stupefying total of 214,000,000 paperbound books was published in the U.S. Most of them were sold, and the probability is that a larger proportion of them were actually read than of hardcover books.

The article presents information on the Chicago newspaper "The Sun." It was the most violently belligerent paper in the U.S. during its early stages. Chicago was led to expect a great paper. Chicagoans disagreed as to what constituted a great paper, but they agreed on certain factors. It would be well written and well edited. It would be mechanically excellent. It would be complete. It would be independent. It would be original. And-this went without saying in Chicago it would be a lighting paper. The bourgeoisie was sure it would fight the Kelly machine. The progressives were sure it would fight the "Tribune."

The current industrialization of Christianity has now reached another milestone with publication of a new Methodist magazine— "Together." With a pre-publication order upped from 600,000 to 700,000 by the clamor of anxious voices who wanted to get "Together," and the confident expectation of a cool 1,000,000 circulation early this year, the Methodists have the hottest thing in the publishing world since "Playboy" began its rise. "Together" rose from the ashes of the 130-year-old "Christian Advocate" and is aimed at the popular market.

The article presents information about various periodicals published during November 1867. "Hours at Home" for this month is also a very good number and as one have more than once said before, of a magazine that is improving constantly. A scholar discourses of the "Moral Uses of Things Unsightly and Disgusting," and justifies their existence by some good and some ingenious reasons. This is the ninth paper of the series and none of the nine has been unprofitable. Author U.M. Towle writes, better than one has known him to write before, of "The French Corps Législatif and its Leaders."

The author congratulates on the sixtieth birthday of the periodical "The Nation." The author compares the periodical with his personality in relation to love of freedom and its moderation. Except for its wisdom and knowledge, the paper is very much like the author. The author admits all the difficulties in the way of any Labor paper--the want of good advertisements, the consequent shabbiness in appearance, the general seriousness that rather frightens the working man, and the persistent note of complaint, always so wearisome in man, woman, child, or paper.

This article focuses on the book "A Bundle of Papers," by Paul Siegvolk. These papers are such as might form the padding of a third-class magazine without offence. They are concerned usually with the conduct of life, and contain such advice relative thereto as would form the worldly wisdom of a country gentleman, easy-going, observant, well-read, in his lighter hours inclined to garrulity, and in his heavier afflicted by a labored striving after antithesis, in which the distinction is perhaps as frequently in the but as in the thought. A legend of the Hudson, a mystery of Narragansett Heights, and the musings of a street-railway conductor vary the subject without varying the interest.

The article presents information about various French publications. Stamped as a counter-revolutionary publication, Combat none the less pretends to be a leftist paper standing for idealistic socialism. Actually, it reflects the opinions of a group who started out on the left, little by little became irritated by the writings and actions of the Communists, found the Socialists too weak and undecided, and, because they themselves had no clear conception of what they wanted in politics, began to criticize everything and inevitably wound up by siding with the right. Another newspaper Temps was read in Spain by the best people, those who knew French and hoped to become Cabinet ministers.

Any inference that the purchase of stock in the Boston Publishing Company by the International Paper Company means a change in the policy of "The Herald," or the "Traveler," is altogether false. The internal affairs of each paper will remain the same. The policies will remain the same. The aim will remain the same to produce first class publications day by day. "The Herald," and the "Traveler," have real confidence in New England, and they will do everything in their power to make stronger the foundations which support the economic structure of New England.

The author describes how "The New York Review of Books" has become increasingly politicized since the election of President George W. Bush. In the wake of the Vietnam War, the "Review" became a formidable--and, in some sense, unique--journalistic institution. Many of its readers reside in academia, but the paper has a devoted following in the upper reaches of media, politics and philanthropy, which gives it an influence vastly out of proportion to its circulation of 130,000. The publication has always been erudite and authoritative--and because of its analytical rigor and seriousness, frequently essential--but it hasn't always been lively, pungent and readable. But the election of George W. Bush, combined with the furies of 9/11, jolted the editors. Since 2001, the "Review's" temperature has risen and its political outlook has sharpened. In stark contrast to "The New Yorker" or "The New York Times Magazine," the "Review" opposed the Iraq war in a voice that was remarkably consistent and unified. What blew the dust off "The New York Review?" As war drew closer, and the press grew more accommodating and deferential, the "Review's" disgust increased, and the editors fired their heavy weaponry. The fall of Baghdad only deepened the fury of the "Review's" contributors. Judt is not the "Review's" only critical voice on Israel. What accounts for the "Review's" post-9/11 revival? One word that continually tumbles from the lips of seasoned "Review"-watchers is "Vietnam." In the case of Iraq, as with Vietnam, the "Review" saw what many other commentators missed or ignored.

There ought to be a place in New York city for a liberal newspaper. No daily has ventured into the vast territory which lies between the radical press and the newspaper "New York World." The radicals themselves are meagerly served in English-language papers. There will be no argument, think, that the World comes closest to being an American Manchester Guardian, but it is at best on the outer rim of the target. Possibly the contention may be raised that there are not enough liberals in New York to support a daily paper. It seems to me the try is worth making. Liberals need not be born. They can be trained by care and kindness. The word "liberal" itself has fallen into disrepute. To a radical it is a label for a man who professes friendship and then rushes away for his thirty pieces of silver as soon as the crisis comes.

In this article the editors of the magazine discuss the 2007 redesign of the periodical. New items that will be regular features of subsequent issues, such as editorial cartoons, are described. The editors note that while the new design may be lively, the magazine will continue to be printed on newsprint paper, a longstanding tradition.

Focuses on the role of an ombudsman in regulating the editors of the periodical The New York Times in the United States. Dispute between publishing correspondent David Kirkpatrick and author Dave Eggers; Allegation of spreading inaccurate information.

It would surprise almost any New York newspaper owner or editor to be told that his newspaper was largely responsible for the unwholesome conditions which have recently been unearthed by the newsstand-racket investigation. And he would put in an indignant denial if it were suggested to him that newspapers of the city might be directly culpable if the grip of the racket were not broken. He would make the reply, with perfect truth, that the newspapers gave considerable space to the exposure of the racket, that some of them published editorial comment against it.

Ten days before Christmas the Chattanooga's periodical "News," was forced to suspend publication after more than fifty-one years as an afternoon daily. The action was the result of an agreement between a combination of majority bondholders and preferred stockholders of the Chattanooga News Co. and Roy McDonald, publisher of the Chattanooga Free Press, the paper's bitterly anti-New Deal competitor. The deal called for the sale of certain assets of the "News," to the Free Press on condition that the "News," cease publication immediately. This squeeze-out was vigorously opposed by both the management of the News and its 150 employees. All proposals made by George Fort Milton, president and general manager of the News, and a committee of employees were ignored.

The Nieman fellows are a selected group of journalists who get a year's sabbatical from newspapers and magazines to meditate in the congenial cloisters of Cambridge. They wrote the book as a. by-product of their seminars on the state of the American press. They have said a. good deal that is worth saying. But the sum of their remarks is disappointing. The authors are finally compelled to describe their projected paper as a combination of the peculiar merits of bug-established dailies. "An ideal newspaper," they conclude, "might perhaps combine the snap and readability of the New York "Daily News," the pictorial excellence of "Life," the thoroughness of the "Times," the human interest and intelligence of the "Herald," "Tribune," and the sense of responsibility of the "Courier-Journal."

Heywood Broun was dismissed on May 5 from the staff of the New York World on a charge of disloyalty because of an article on liberal newspapers published in this periodical. In that article columnist Broun said that among New York newspapers the World came "closest to being an American Manchester Guardian," but that it lacked the "Courage" and "tenacity" necessary for a truly liberal paper. He specified several instances in which he believed the World had shifted its position and exhibited too timid a concern for various groups.

The newspaper never has continued or will continue in its employ any employee whose attitude, actions, or activities bring or might bring this newspaper into disrepute or damage the relationship of this news- paper, with its readers or advertisers. Any conduct of any employee violating any of the above principles is considered gross misconduct. This arbitrary interpretation of "gross misconduct" would make mincemeat of the Guild contract clause guaranteeing employees freedom in their outside activities so long as the newspaper is not exploited.

In this article, the author stresses on the need a newspaper that provides content relevant for working class. According to the author, there are several newspapers that are sought by so many classes of people. Every morning, in the U.S., 1.8 million people reach for "The Wall Street Journal," a newspaper that does much to nourish and strengthen the world of commerce. Along with "the New York Times" and "The Washington Post," it delineates the boundaries of acceptable political discourse while at the same time establishing an agenda for television and radio news. The author wonders, if stockbrokers, lawyers and bankers have a first-rate daily newspaper looking after their interests, there should also be one for auto workers, clerks, janitors and others.

The article presents information on new publications being released in the U.S. "National Geographic Magazine" for March 1900 contains a sketch of the Transvaal, South Africa, in which the author, F.F. Hilder, dwells particularly on the native races, holding that the future of South Africa depends largely, not on the supremacy of any one European nation, but upon the manner in which natives are treated by Whites. "Moose-Hunting With the Tro-Chu-Tin" is the title of a descriptive paper in Harper's, by Tappan Adney. Tro-Chu-Tin are the Klondike Indians and the paper is a lifelike account of a primitive winter hunt by a village community.

This article presents information on socio-political conditions in the world during 1889. The journal "New York Press," whose editor was appointed by U.S. President Benjamin Harrison Superintendent of the Census, has done the public a service in showing that any editor who is appointed to office must either abandon or muzzle his paper. The conscription for the great continental armies, with the heavy taxation necessary for their maintenance, combined with the wonderful cheapening and quickening of travel and the increased knowledge of foreign countries diffused by the newspapers, is apparently rousing the Latin races into an emigrating activity.

Twenty years ago, a calamity occurred in New York journalism. It was recorded at first hand in the February 27, 1931 issue of the newspaper World, the last edition of a great newspaper. The shock of the newspaper's passing was deeply felt by the 2,867 employees of the World, the Evening World and the Sunday World. It registered almost as intensely with working newspapermen throughout the nation and with all men and women of good will concerned about assaults of privilege and corruption and bigotry. The family of World readers believed that the paper fulfilled the Pulitzer ideal as nearly as any daily paper could.

The article presents information on editor H. N. Brailsford and his farewell. He is resigning from the editorship of the journal "New Leader." This is the last letter he wrote in this regard and is presented. His aim during these four years has been to provide for thoughtful readers in the Socialist movement a paper which might rank, so far as the handicap of its small size permitted, with the older political reviews. A weekly paper devoted to news ceased to be necessary since the Daily Herald was founded. For popular reading there are in London and the provinces many Socialist weeklies.

After the author was forced out of the editorship of the Ullstein Berliner Zeitung am Mittag in December, 1931, the author served as American correspondent for the Ullstein papers for a year. On January 4, 1933, the author returned to Germany and became editor of the daily "12 Uhr Blatt" and the weekly "Montag Morgen," both smaller left-democratic journals. As it happened, the author started to work on January 30, the day the German dictator Adolf Hitler came into power. The very first news item laid on the author's desk was a solemn declaration that in the Third Reich the freedom of the press would be inviolate.

This article presents information about several books on different topics. The Baukside Parallel Edition of the quarto and first folio texts or Shakespeare will employ the entirely unique system of Line Notation finally adopted by the Royal Geographical Society, and which the Society believes to be satisfactorily adjustable for all critical purposes to any edition of the plays. The "Scottish Geographical Magazine" for August contains a paper on recent physical research in the North Sea, founded on observations made by the German Navy during the past few years, and ma abstract of the first Government Report on Upper Burma, giving a thief outline of events leading to its occupation, the present methods of government, its resources etc.

Every year there are printed in these States one quadrillion eight hundred trillion words. This unthinkable total measures the annual out- put of printing presses of the U.S. in the forms of newspapers, periodicals, books, pamphlets, reports, catalogues, circulars, handbills, leaflets, tracts, and advertising matter generally. The New York morning World contains between 150,000 and 200,000 words, including advertisements. But the World is bulkier than many other papers. If one estimates the average newspaper at 100,000 words, and allow a ten per cent overlay for Sunday editions, it follows that the daily newspaper circulation of forty million copies in the U.S. carries to the eager reader 1,600,000,000,000,000 words in a year's time.

The article presents information on Oswald Garrison Villard, editor and the owner of the periodical. Villard liked to think of himself as the simple product of two simple currents: the high-principled idealism of his Abolitionist grandfather, William Lloyd Garrison and the high-principled realism of his railroad-building father, Henry Villard. He never understood the contradictions within the characters of both those stalwart Americans, or in himself. But it was those contradictions which made Villard the great editor that he was and Villard's periodical, the great paper that it was and is.

In March, 1937, the idea of publishing a magazine for the masses who had lost faith in the newspapers was discussed by three persons in Chicago. David A. Smart, young and rich, had made a success with a clothing-trade paper called Apparel Arts, Arnold Gingrich, novelist and art connoisseur, had years ago proposed a magazine for men only, the two had produced Esquire, now selling 600,000 copies a month, and later Coronets which thrived despite the depression and lack of advertising. The third man was Jay Cooke Allen, one of America's great journalists. Allen was to be editor. The magazine was to be called Ken-the Insiders' World. Ken's left-of-center policy was definitely settled when Smart, back in America, received a letter from Allen in Paris explaining the French Peoples Front.

The article presents political updates of the world, as of September 21, 1901. The attempt on U.S. President William McKinley's life at Buffalo, New York, on Friday last touched, as it could not fail to do, the national feeling, instantly and deeply. Nor could any moral and humane person hesitate to denounce without reservation the infamy of a crime not to be excused were the victim the meanest, instead of the most exalted, citizen. In another update, in considering the interesting paper of the Oxford, England correspondent, of the journal "Observer," on the causes of imperialism in England, the first thing that occurs to people is that Imperialism, Megalomania, or Jingoism, though there is a sudden access of it at present, is by no means so new a thing as "Observer," seems to assume.

This article presents information on various books and publications. The book "Secret of Hegel," which made its original appearance in 1865, and now, after the lapse of a generation, may fairly claim to have become a philosophical classic. The third edition of the book "Study of Ethical Principles," has been improved by the rewriting of the chapter on the method of ethics, by the addition at a new chapter on moral progress, and by the insertion of bibliographical references and an index. The Yukon basin is the subject of an illustrated paper in the July 1898 issue of the journal "Geographical Journal."

The article presents manuscripts on various sociopolitical happenings in and around the U.S. as of April 1967. One manuscript reports on the resurrection that was reminded to the Americans at the time of Easter. Another article reports on the quarterly "New University Though!" which has published a special issue, "Decisions for America," incorporating the papers delivered at the conference on "The National Priorities Problem" organized by Professor Seymour Melman and some of his colleagues at the Columbia University.

The article presents information about various publications. T. Fisher Unwin has in the press a volume called "The Birth of Modern Italy." "The Posthumous Papers of Jessie White Mario," edited by and with an introduction, notes and epilogue by the Duke Litta-Visconti Arese. Jessie White Mario, the English wife of an Italian patriot, played a prominent part with her husband in the struggle for Italian independence. The memoirs contain a good idea of new material related to stirring events in which happened. The Grafton Magazine of History and Genealogy is a new quarterly periodical, is a new issue of which has just been brought out by the Grafton Press of New York and Boston.

Fremont Older's career began, as it will end, without pretension. Any time these forty-odd years he would have told that whatever else it might have a newspaper must have advertising and circulation, and that he was running a newspaper for owners who expected him to make it pay. This realism has been the constant background of his career. He has been, primarily and most consistently, a circulation-getter, the editor of a profitable afternoon newspaper dependent on the crowd for its circulation and on shop-keepers for its advertising. He has risked both, he has taken huge chances, but always as a confident and audacious gambler who expected to win.

Most medical journal editors don't muddy their hands with advertising decisions, but the companies and societies that pay their salaries are not above agitating for a bigger piece of the $5 billion drug-industry advertising pie--and forcing editors to make their pages as industry-friendly as possible. Reed Elsevier's Excerpta Medica helps companies place positive articles about their drugs in top-tier medical journals, many of which are conveniently owned by medical firm Reed Elsevier. The Massachusetts Medical Society, which earns more than three-quarters of its income from journal revenues, pushes editors to be even more amenable to industry dollars, critics say.

The article presents several development. Michael Moore, whom Adam Hochschild chose to dismiss from his job as editor of the periodical "Mother Jones," is learning to his cost the old rule that the rich are different. Moore ran a fine weekly paper, "The Michigan Voice," out of Flint, which is where he grew up, the son of an auto worker and the nephew of a man who took part in the famous sit-down strike of 1937. In another development few human rights reports have been issued in a more politically fraught atmosphere than the one concerning Nicaragua released by the International League for Human Rights in July 1986.

Presents letters to the editor on articles published in previous issues. Disappointment of a reader with an article on certain newspapers; Corrections to articles on anthracite coal; Wish of a reader to get in touch with other readers of the journal "The Nation."

The newspapers in the U.S. are more widely read than ever before in its history. A high percentage of the newspapers that survive steadily grow stronger in a financial way and usually keep increasing their circulation totals. The newspapers are growing in disfavor among the labor groups and certain classes of farmers. Newspaper owners usually employ writers who are capable of making their news readable. There are many enterprises and issues which newspaper owners feel compelled to favor for public or personal or political reasons, and many others of which they disapprove and desire their readers to disapprove.

This article focuses on literature. It is a great pleasure at last to receive the long-promised second series of the book "Biglow Papers." The book is headed by an excellent introduction. Science and literature in this country will owe much to writer George Peabody, who, in his benefactions, in addition to using his own good sense, does riot refuse good advice. Besides the libraries and institutes at Danvers and Baltimore, the latter endowed with over a million of dollars, he has given handsome sums to various minor colleges and schools. The proprietors of the journal "K&oouml;nisehe Zeitung," are issuing a weekly edition of that paper, the first attempt, at a political weekly in Germany.

The article presents information about papers published in periodicals during October 1869. Four chapters of the article "Susan Fielding" open the Galaxy, though it is to the article "Put Yourself in his Place" that all novel-readers, habitual or occasional, will first turn. Two of the Galaxy's articles that are of more consequence than those of which mention has been made are Grant White's "Shakespearian Mares' Nests" and "Journey in Northern China." White gives provides a good verbal criticism, and throws light on a good many passages which many of the readers had not been understanding before. But he is not entirely free from those sudden and unaccountable fits of stone-blindness which afflict commentators.

The article presents some literary updates. The April issue of the Journal of the Ethnological Society of London has for its opening paper an account of flint instruments from Oxfordshire and the Isle of Thanet, which may be recommended to the student of English or North American history. Author John Lubbock's paper on stone implements from the Cape of Good Hope should also be read in connection with it. Both papers have illustrations. The Harvard Advocate, the best of the collegiate periodicals, has been able to make two hundred dollars over and above its expenses during the past year and in pursuance of its announced intention, has given that sum to the college to be used for the increase of the library.

This article presents the author's comments on an article published in the April 27 issue of the journal "The Nation." The article was featured on the cover as giving the facts about army courts-martial and was made the subject of an editorial. The editorial refers to the court-martial system as ancient. This charge must be admitted. But it is also true of the American constitution. The Ten Commandments are even older. The Articles of War, the basic authority for the army's court-martial system, are the legal code made by civilian authority for the government of the army. The article, written by Maurice Rosenblatt, voices a variety of complaints. But Rosenblatt also says, on paper army justice is severe but fair, and there are practically no instances of innocent men being convicted or framed.

The article focuses on life and work of the distinguished Scandinavian scholar Axel Olrik, professor of folklore in the University of Copenhagen. According to the author, there are numerous contributions of Olrik to Scandinavian philological and historical periodicals. Some of these have also appeared separately in book form. At the International Congress in Berlin in 1909 Olrik read an interesting paper on the epic laws in popular poetry, which was published later and is of importance for all students of ballads and popular poetry.

Presents several letters to the editor. Views of the reader on American reputation for illiteracy; Confusion regarding the water-marks in a book; Appeal made by the reader, to the periodical "Nation," for relief from an affliction, which is persistent.

This article discusses several issues. It is curious that the publication of a great man's love letters is sure to set the world a-wrangling over the propriety of such an act, and that the gentlest of emotions is so easily made the cause of animosity. It is thirty years since the letters of the poet John Keats to Fanny Brawne were printed by H.B. Forman, thereby arousing the indignation of Sidney Colvin and Matthew Arnold and other admirers of the poet. "How May Christianity Be Defended Today?" is the title of a significant paper by A.C. McGffert of the Union Theological Seminary, in the October number of the Hibbert Journal. This mew method of maintaining the faith once delivered would have made the Christian apologist of a generation ago-perhaps even a decade ago-gasp and stare.