Magazine Honors F. O. Matthiessen

A 154-page tribute to the memory of F. O. Matthiessen late professor of History and Literature, is published this week as a special issue of the "Monthly Review," an "independent socialist magazine" which Mattheissen helped to found.

In addition to selections from Matthiessen's book, "From the Heart of Europe," and a chapter from his biography of Theodore Dreiser, which he had nearly completed at the time of his death, the memorial issue contains personal reminiscences and sketches by more than a score of his friends and associates.

Among Harvard contributors to the issue are Harry Levin '33, professor of English, "Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Francis Leo Higginson Professor of English Literature, and Richard Wilbur, Briggs Copeland Assistant Professor of English Composition.

Paul M. Sweezy '31, and Leo Huberman '29, editors of the "Monthly Review," have included in the special issue a bibliography compiled by C. L. Barber who was willed the bulk of Malthiessen's books and papers.

On November 21, Henry Schuman, Inc. will publish the contents of this memorial issue in bound book form.

Matthiessen was an expert on Melville and Hawtherne, as well as Dreiser.