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.