The volumes contain weekly press releases of book reviews by faculty members at the University of Virginia and other Virginia colleges together with clippings of the published reviews. The versos of the press releases contain lists of the papers that printed rhe reviews. Authors reviewed include James Truslow Adams, Hervey Allen, Jacques Barzun, Hilaire Belloc, John Buchan, James Branch Cabell, Erskine Caldwell and Margaret Bouke-White, Willa Cather, Marquis W. Childs, Henry Steele Commager, Josephus Daniels, John Dos Passos, Edna Ferber, Anna Freud, John Galsworthy, Hamlin Garland, Ellen Glasgow, John Hersey, Georgette Heyer, DuBose Heyward, Ernest Hemingway, Julian Huxley, Walter Lippmann, Archibald MacLeish, Allan Nevins, Robinson Jeffers, Oliver La Farge, W. Somerset Maugham, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Eugene O'Neill, Julia Peterkin, Frederic Prokosch, Ernie Pyle, Edward V. Rickenbacker, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Edward R. Stettinius, Ida Tarbell, James Thurber, S. S. Van Dine, Sumner Welles, H. G. Wells, Eudora Welty, Wendell Wilkie, Virginia Woolf, and Elinor Wylie. Reviewers include Ben Belitt, Lambert Davis, Charles Kidder Davenport, Laurence A. Dawson, J.N.G. Finley, William A. Kepner, Frank McLean, Everard Meade, John Calvin Metcalf, Charles A. Moran, Jr., George H. Reese, Turner Rose, Louise Savage, M. H. Spalding, and John Cook Wyllie.
