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SQUIRE, J.C. (EDITOR) London Mercury March 1933, Volume XXVII, No. 161
E.J. Pink / The London Mercury, Ltd. / The Mercury Press, 1933. Large Softcover. Good. Cover edge wear. Binding tight, pages clean & bright. EDITORIAL NOTES by J.C. Squire: Professor Saintsbury; George Moore; John Galsworthy; WOODCUT: Gazelle by William Mason; NOTES AND NEWS: Exhibition of Woodfordiana; The Royal Society of Arts Competition of Industrial Designs; The English Catalogue of Books; Part VI Johnsonian Gleanings; POETRY: Three Poems by Dorothy Wellesley; Prodigal Son by Tom Staveley; TAIL-PIECE: Woodcut by Michael Wickham; A GLASS OF STOUT by T.O. Beachcroft; A TRIP TO CZARDIS by Edwin Granberry; GEORGE MOORE by Osbert Burdett; A VISIT FROM GEORGE MOORE by Philip Gosse; GEORGE SAINTSBURY by Sir George Chrystal; TAIL-PIECE: Woodcut by James Lindsay; BEHIND THE LEGEND OF GEORGE SAINTSBURY by Brenda Green; CORRESPONDENCE from Lt.-Col. Arthur Osburn, D.S.O. and Charles F. Wiseman; WOODCUT: Eucalyptus by Pamela d' A. Nathan; BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES AND NEWS by I.A. Williams; BOOK-PRODUCTION NOTES by B.H. Newdigate; CHRONICLES: POETRY by Eiluned Lewis; THE TALKIES by Robert Herring; BELLES-LETTRES by Yvonne ffrench; LITERARY HISTORY AND CRITICISM by John Sparrow; FICTION - I by J.E.S. Arrowsmith; FICTION - II by Helen Moran; BIOGRAPHY AND MEMOIRS by Clennell Wilkinson; ORIENTAL BOOKS by Eric Gillett; TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE by Clennell Wilkinson. "The London Mercury (1919-1939) was an important journal in literary London from 1919-1939. In 1934, Scott-James took over the editorship of the influential magazine, the London Mercury from J.C. Squire, in which he published many canonically recognized authors of modernism. The last issue of the London Mercury in April 1939 contained W.H. Auden's 'In Memory of W.B. Yeats.' Rolfe Arnold Scott-James (1878-1959) was an important journalist, editor and literary critic in early twentieth-century literature. He is often cited as one of the first people to use the word "modernism" in his 1908 book Modernism and Romance, in which he writes, "there are characteristics of modern life in general which can only be summed up, as Mr. Thomas Hardy and others have summed them up, by the word, modernism" (ix). Scott-James was educated at Brasenose College, Oxford and graduated in 1901. The Dictionary of National Biography states that Scott-James "possessed a strongly developed social conscience: this manifested itself at many different points in his career in activities which, if distinct from his literary gifts, at the same time enriched them" (872). In 1914, Scott-James, then a close friend Wyndham Lewis became the editor of the New Weekly, which did not survive the outbreak of war later in 1914. During the war, Scott-James enlisted as and fought in the Royal Garrison Artillery in France, and by the end of the war he had rose to the rank of Captain and in 1918 was awarded the Military Cross." -- Wikipedia.
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