Our New Magazines --The Double Dealer
's Note: This is the second Allow me to quote an editorial or two: go out-the lynching bee, Little Eva, Dunsany, John McClure, and Unter-
es of articles written by G. "Let it be affirmed once and for all. Kentucky Colonel, beautiful kuadroon meyer. This poetry business in the
he new magazines. A third, The Double Dealer holds no brief for stuff. A sure, saner, more virile, less Double Dealer I shall leave to another
"All's Well".will appear in democrat, republican or socialist, re- sentimental literature must come in. hand more experienced than my own
ssue.) former or 1eactionary, Methodist par- By all the symptoms, the reaction is in such matters. You'll probably get
(By G. ). E) I son or college professor, but is con- near at hand," a ;resume of it next Sunday. I only
cerned with the dissemination of good, Still again: "Our-only hope is for say that the most of the poetry is
d there, amid plumes of fac- readable matter and the telling of the a host of valiant pessimists, not over- good, that such comparatively un-
:e, or from some remote cel- truth regardless of whom it disquiets. night reformers, nor crazy-quilt patch- known names as Oscar Williams and
of the middle west, or even "This may mean a championing of workers. We need tearers-down, clear- Babette Deutsch (I thought the last of
ege communities, there have .causes lost in the maudlinity of the ers-of-the-ground. We need liberation such poets died with Swinburne) have
s mob, or it may mean, simply tickling from the iron rule of. a dead hand." taken on an added respect in my eyes.
Smagazines, some of. themth
the ribs of the intelligentsia over come But don't get the idea that the The fiction, I must say, is far below
ding. Of the readable sort pompous fraud. Surely, the spirit of Duble Dealer has any radical pan- the level of the rest of the Double
uble Dealer which is printed blatant superficiality, provincial self- acea. It says, "....your Liberal ad- Dealer. I ceaselessly wonder why
rleans. complacency, and hypocritical right- dresses his appeal to the masses, de- .they cannot get good stories. In all
g from the land of the Stars eousness was never more rampant rives his support from the plutocrat, of the copies which I have on hand I
than in the south today" and is hearkened to by other Liberals." find but one or two stories of first
frm am dst idolators of Despite the occasional bad diction, An ironical summary, surely! rank, and but a half dozen of second
Davis, frots eand o the grammar, spelling, I fed gluttonously And all throgh its editorials, the rank. I mention "A Thousand Head
Democrats sd evangelical on such editorials.. In ten days I could Double Dealer remained unaffected by of/ Cattle," by 'William Saphier as
The firstissue was awaited do without my Peruna and Nux vom- epidemics of Main Streetitis, Ku-Klux- about the best, though it is surely no
tus smirks of conplacen.y* ica; after two months I returned to the ing, psycho-analysis and, the Opija better than the splendidly ir'onic story,
was to be fought over agai ,.sterner stuff in the bottle behind toe board. I turn to its other pages, of "The Reticence - of Caravan," by
itld rise out of the grave and cupboard. Again, speaking of South- the nine or ten copies which I have Thomas Kennedy. In the second class
hat the North had lost all ern literature, I find this: on hand. I find essays by de Casseres, fall such stories as "The Rider
r, Wilson would displace "The old Southern pot-boiler must Safcadio Hearn, Kreymborg; poetry by (Continued on Page 8)
ten 'the president-elect.
'I
'e hono
rding,t
knd lo! when the issue came the
irks vanished. There were growls
I the overhauling of butternut uni-
ms, rusty swords, and pepper-box
tols. It seemed that all was not
at it should be. .MHere was a group
men publishing a magazine and
h less use for the Stars and Bars
Ln for a handkerchief. The Re oh-
ms began -to chortle, wh t few of
,m there were.
'he old guards of the glorious Con-
eracy rose to their sublimest
ghts of indignation in February
1, when the second number appear-
On the first page a Double Dealer
for had at President Wilson, then
ping his last executive breaths in
White House. In a short space
tweaked the Wilsonian ear, pinch-
the Woodrovian nose, and kicked
,presidential pants. Whole. battal-
of colonels flopped as they read,
weak from surprise to offer any
'sical resistance. The Chief High
h-Blah of the honorable order of
-Kluxers was taken with a fit of
plexy. The Ladies' Christian En-
vor grew flustered and the ladies
got about the gals who were dailyI
ering "worse than death" in the
cities.
he Grand Old Party, with many a
rate but zestful cheer, bought the
gazine and read, in high glee the
ile against the traitor, Woodrow.
er to see the thing to its gory end,
turned the page with many
lops and found another damniad on
'ding! Requiescant Republicani!
.egardless of its fine poetry, its
ection of well-written essays, its
e than usually good book reviews,
best part of the Double Dealer was
editorials. I use the past tense for
simple reason that, with the pass-J
of October number, the quality of
se editorials has fallen off, bit by
respected the editorials because
y respected nothing, one way or
ther, just as ]; would respect geo-
y were it to be called a religion
.ead of a science, because it con-
ads all other religions. The Double
.ler editorials took a hammer to the
rd of the colon's, it put a "stick"
the lemonade (,. the Ladies' Aid
ge Robert Service!), it kicked all
literary traditions and writers
ow, romanticists, realists, expres-
ists, and all of the rest. It dealt
a cuff to the ears and straightened
p again with another to the ischial
on. Vencken had no sooner
.sed the Double Dealer in the Smart
than the Double Dealer gave that
subtable critic a punch to the solar
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