New Magazines

Early in Poerry's career we began to collect first num-
bers of magazines-every Vol. I, No. I which has brought
its flutter of hope into the office has been carefully pre-
served. Odd little brochures many of them are; occa-
sionally the first number is also the last, but usually the
flutter persists through a few issues before it folds its
wings. And a few of these first numbers bear titles now
well known-The New Republic, The Chapbook, The
Little Review, The Liberator, The Measure, The Dial.
  This autumn our collection has been enriched by first
numbers of The Milwaukee Arts Monthly, Modern Review,
and Caprice; and a new one, Rhythmus, will soon appear.
  The Milwaukee Arts Monthly, which began in Sep-
tember, is a welcome and most promising messenger from
our neighbor to the north. Every large city ought to
publish and liberally support at least one magazine of the
arts, as well as an arts theatre (Milwaukee has a fine
one, The Wisconsin Players), a musical. society, etc.
The first two numbers show a progressive spirit in the
editor, Samuel Pessin, and his associates and contributors.
Many of the contributors we recognize-Ben Hecht, Carl
Sandburg, Laura Sherry, Elizabeth Roberts, Yvor
Winters, for example-and others are new tous. Certain
drawings by Eric Smith, Morris Topchevsky, Ilonka
Karasz and George Grosz look like real finds. The paper
Mark Turbyfill will be its Chicago editor.
  Caprice, whose sub-title is 4 Poetry-art Magazine,
comes from Los Angeles, apparently a somewhat more
radical rival of The Lyric West. "A magazine of the
younger poets," the editor, David N. Grokowsky, calls
it, and he presents a few new ones among names more
familiar. The associate editor, Nahum Yarvor, predicts
that "Chicago will be the literary capital." Meantime
John Drury represents the magazine in Chicago, and
Rex Hunter in New York.
  Modern Review advertises that it "will print nothing
clever or radical," yet we find Bodenheim and Carnevali
among the contributors to its first, its Autumn Number.
Shades of the conservatives!-is Saul also among the
prophets? This quarterly contains poems, stories, a study
of ultra-modern poetry by the associate editor, Virgil
Geddes, one of Papini by Emanuel Carnevali, and a
Chicago letter by Sam Putnam. Fiswoode Tarleton is
the editor, and Winchester, Mass., the place.
  Rhythmus is to be published in New York and devoted
to poetry; under the editorship of Gustav Davidson, who
some years ago ran that delicately printed venture, The
Madrigal, and our old friend Oscar Williams, late Lola
Ridge's assistant in the New York office of Broom.
 To all these new magazines we offer the glad hand of
good fellowship, and our best wishes for a long and
inspirational career.