The Three Readers

Subtitled
"An omnibus of novels, stories, essays & poems selected with comments by the editorial committee of The Readers Club"

"Dedicated To the Memory of Alexander Woollcott"

TABLE OF
A Three letters to George
...in which the editors of this volume respond to the request that they comment upon the literary tastes shown in the contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Section Selected by Clifton Fadiman
Introductory Remarks
BACK FOR CHRISTMAS, a story by John Collier
BATS, a naturalist's adventure by Ivan T. Sanderson
A SIMPLE HEART, a story by Gustave Flaubert
BENZOIN FOR THE TURBINATES, an essay by St. Clair McKelway
SEPTEMBER 1, 1939, a poem by W. H. Auden
OF THIS TIME, OF THAT PLACE, a story by Lionel Trilling
SEA RAIDER, the text of a broadcast made by Frank Laskier
ZULEIKA IN CAMBRIDGE, a fantasy by S. C. Roberts
THE STRUGGLE FOR NORTH AMERICA, an historical essay by Arnold J. Toynbee
MONOLOGUE D'OUTRE TOMBE, by an Unknown Author
THE CELESTIAL OMNIBUS, a short story by E. M. Forster
THE SEA-COW, an essay by John Steinbeck and Edward F. Racketts
RULES FOR JUDICIAL CONDUCT, drawn up by Mr. Matthew Hale, ET.

Section Selected by Sinclair Lewis
Introductory Remarks
THE HILL, a short novel by Eleanor Green
COUNTRY PEOPLE, a short novel by Ruth Sucrow

Section Selected by Carl van Doren
Introductory Remarks
THOMAS JEFFERSON TO MARIA COSWAY, the love letter of a philosopher
THE FABLE OF THE FOOZLE AND THE SUCCESSFUL APPROACH, a fable by George Ade
THE DEATH OF ARROWSMITH, an auto-obituary by Sinclair Lewis
A PREFACE TO MY POEMS, an essay by George Santayana
HU SHIH'S MUSKETEER, a "profile" by John Bainbridge
THOREAU, an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson
THE SWAMP FOX, a poem by William Gilmore Simms
THE PELICAN'S SHADOW, a story by Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
REVERIE OF SPACE AND TIME, an essay by Herman Melville
A WINTER DIARY, a novel in verse by Mark van Doren
DAYBREAK, a radio-play by Norman Corwin
ON A FOREST DRAMA, a note by Mr. van Doren
A TREATY HELD WITH THE OHIO INDIANS, AT CARLISLE, IN OCTOBER, 1753