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Journal Herald
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June 1-31
4 PARISIAN MAGAZINE
*This Quarter' —u magazine
printed and published in Paris
once each quarter and edited
by Edward W. Titus.
BY H. A. STALLINGS
The January-February-March is¬
zue is the first one of this maga¬
zine we have had the opportunity
pf reading and we have found it
interesting and entertaining.
Among the writers in this is¬
sue are Arthur Schnitzler, Rich¬
urd Beer-Hofman, Stefan Zweig,
Rainer Maria Rilke, K. H. Wag¬
gerl. Mare Blitzstein, Maria Muhl¬
grabner, Arnold Ulitz, Kathleen
Coyle, Erskine Caldwell, E. E.
Cummings, Allen Tate, F. Kahn,
Russell Thorndike, Jane Snowden
Crosby, Emanuel Carnevali, Ben
Sussan, A. S. Frere-Reeves, Alfrec
Kreymberg and Effingham Evarts.
Short stories predominate and.
in the main, these are stories with
an unusual plot or an unusual
stwist to a familiar plot. Probably
Ithe best of these is a story of a
wife of a blind man, who on the
day the sight of the blind man
was restored, commitied suieide
for fear the blind man would not
like her looks.
We quote from one of the
Schnitzler essays: It has always
been ebvious that men must first
make room in their hearts when
some one comes along and lays
claim to their love, friendship,
sympathy, or simple consideration
only. Man’s feelings are büt rare¬
Iy comparable to a spring that.
bubbles inexhaustibly. As a rule
the spring will be found to have
been confined in a graduated
reservoir, whience, under eternally
uniform pressure, it flows into un
limited number of conduits; and,
as often as a new channel has
been filled, it means that anotheri
was tapped or drained dry“, Thist
is a theory that in order to lovel
Vone it is necessary to cease lov¬
ing another, that man has only so.
much love, and to love many the
capacity for love must be passed
around, so to speak.
The magazine is decidedly
foreign in its atmosphere and
therefore comes to the American
reader as something novel.