That distinguished literary quarterly, the Southern Review, has announced that its spring issue of 1942 will probably be its last. Louisiana State University decided it can no longer afford the $10,000 a year the Review costs. Back to full-time teaching in the English department will go Review Editors Cleanth Brooks Jr. and Robert Penn Warren (Night Rider). Says L.S.U.'s prexy, Major General Campbell Blackshear Hodges (ret.):
"They tell me the Southern Review is a fine publication, but I think its chances are damn poor. . . ."
The Southern Review was founded in 1935 on a cut from the millions "that moral idiot...