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...consider themselves to be apart from the national mass in perception and appreciation, there last week appeared a quarterly titled USA. Its progenitors: "The group centering informally around the Centaur Bookshop ( Philadelphia)." Of the first edition, 2,000 copies were printed, price: $1 the copy. Lead-off article for Vol. 1 No. 1 was by Clifton C. Fadiman, editorial chief of Simon & Schuster (Manhattan publishers), contributor to The Nation. With lofty tolerance, he set about denning the Republic's culture and U S A's aim. Said he (italics...
...Osgood '86, Perkins Professor of Mathematics, to defray expenses to connection with the final preparation for publication of his Funktionentheorie, Vol. II, Part...
Volume I gives an accurate reprint of the text; Volume II supplies a masterly Introduction, Notes, and critical apparatus. Vol. I, $5.00; Vol...
When they hear the name Rothschild uttered, they can turn to FORTUNE, Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 99-104, for an intimate gallery of that great European banking family of whom Disraeli said to Queen Victoria: "I am of the opinion, madame, that there never can be too many Rothschilds." FORTUNE presented, by tribes, several dozen Rothschilds now living, including one-eyed Baron James, duelling Senator Maurice, fat doctor-playwright Baron Henri (under a parasol, sitting on a dead hippopotamus) and fatter Baron Lionel Walter, who collects fleas...
...Faces of the Month" and "A Budget for a $25,000 Income in Chicago" were self-explanatory lesser features toward the back-of-the-book in Vol. 1, No. 1, where a magnificent forest of advertisements arose. Hearing that a "most beautiful magazine in America" was forthcoming, advertisers had flocked in, most of them with specially prepared copy, until they filled 106 pages and three covers, making Vol. 1, No. 1 a 3-lb., 184-page phenomenon...