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Celebrating the first five years of publication of The American Mercury, Editor H. L. Mencken pointed out editorially in the December number what a bright, good, competent job has been done; how happy all the intelligent readers of the magazine are (all of them being intelligent); how tirelessly he will strive to make the Mercury brighter and bigger and better...
...debts of the Mercury are paid, said Editor Mencken; it is showing a profit. Advertisers are faithful and enthusiastic. Imitators of the magazine have turned up, but the Mercurians never fail to "distinguish between the simon pure article and the second best." All enemies have been overcome, even to the "wowsers" of Boston...
Readers who have smiled to see Mencken jeer, these five prosperous years in the green Mercurial jacket, at go-getter, hundred-percenter, live-wire, inspirational, egotistic pep stuff, were shocked to see him strut himself in such an inept business-getting manner. Their conclusion was that he has joined his own "hated Philisterei...
Remembering Schubert Week (Nov. 18-25), Editor Henry Louis Mencken himself wrote a Schubert tribute for his American Mercury, said in summary...
...Mencken was mentioned last fortnight by the Communist New Masses as follows: "George Sterling committed suicide about a year ago, in San Francisco, after a night spent in conversation with H. L. Mencken...