ABSTRACT
An illustrated monthly on the lines of Art and Letters had planned by the editors so far back as the spring of 1914, and arrangements had made for its publication in the autumn of that year. Objections on the score of scarcity of paper and shortage of labour may surely be overrules when remember the reams of paper wasted weekly and the hundreds of compositors daily misemployed on periodicals which give vulgar and illiterate expression to the most vile and debasing sentiments. “Little would it profit this nation,” one writes, “if achieve complete victory only to repeat the tragic error of Germany, which has become a plague to civilisation by falsely seeing greatness in Moltke and Bismarck rather than in Goethe and Beethoven.” It is no mean or unworthy task to uphold the highest standards in all the arts, paying no respect to popular sentiment and ephemeral reputations, and making no concession to commercial opportunities.
