Contents: Marko Marulic; Ivan Aralica about the Humanist Antun Vrancic; Ignjat Durdevic; The Croatian Sources of Paisii's History; Rude Boshkovic on American Independence; The Peasants as Depicted by Serbian "Realist" Writers; "Death of a Villager" by J. Kersnik; The Bulgarian Peasants as Depicted by Elin Pelin and Jordan Jovkov; Some Specific Themes of Contemporary Slovenian Poetry; Andric's Franciscans; Life and Works of Miroslav Krlezha; Krlezha on Krizhanic -- From History to Legend; The Ideological Conflict between Milosh Crnjanski and Marko Ristic; A Literary Profile of Ivan Meshtrovic; Viktor Vida and His Poetry; Rebula's Vision of Trieste; Fulvio Tomizza's Depiction of Istria; Evelyn Waugh on Tito's "Partisans;" The Yugoslav Gulag; Index.

"It is a welcome addition to an all-too-short bibliography of South Slavic literatures in English." (SEEJ)