Issue features include: American Rural Fiction, 1939 – Signed Reviews – Descriptive Notes and Abstracts – Bibliographies – New Periodicals – Selected List of Recent Reviews – State Publications – U. S. Department of Agriculture Publications, Economic in Nature – State Publications – Periodical Articles – Notes. Book reviews included: The Agricultural Industries (Deane W. Malott & Boyce F. Martin) --- Das Bauerntum als Lebens- und Gemeinschaftsform (Hans F. K. Gϋnther) --- Applied General Statistics (Frederick E. Croxton & Dudley J. Cowden) --- The Sociology of Rural Life (T. Lynn Smith) --- Minnesota Farmers' Diaries; William R. Brown, 1845-46, Mitchell Y. Jackson, 1852-63 (Rodney C. Loehr, editor) --- Competition Among Grains (Naum Jasny) --- Year Book of Agricultural Co-operation (Edited by the Horace Plunkett Foundation) --- Capitalism the Creator; The Economic Foundations of Modern Industrial Society (Carl Snyder).