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oLOLUME XVIl                              Madison
CONTENTS
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.An answerfto  ire  riti  Philly  P .e  a
Why the Lit touild print the flag on te
Forty Buets of Blood, orThe Widow  Re, nge
Garbage Cons, a poem     H-ashtmo  Tigo .
1Th, PrpleCowa fantsay       Robin      4
'The pyceh.logy o>f oelf-advertinytn 1Quarbrg
(uroe1'ttoRsra .4Joansertesn         4
Why pick ontm?-           Carl Rusel Fih  I
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0-w he neier it U. B. 8
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ONE does not need to subscribe to the Wisconsin
Literary Magazine to realize thatnothing worth
while can possibly be said outside of its columns A
glance at the masthead will acme in show the least din-
erining that all the brains in the University if, indeed,
anythmg that is not Russian can be said to have brains
are concentrated in the craniums of the Lit staff Our
critics nill prcbably say that -e are conciitd to claim
this. but they are wrceg en both cors In the fitst
place %e don't claim it. we admit it, as -e said once
before. "if we are chargrd with ntellctualism. e are
proud to plead guilty"  and in the second place, if we
didn't say so. who would?
These neo-patriots who conceive of patriotism as being
in-itiment of loyalty to one's country only show that
k, y are incapableof that greater world-qtizenship which
u s long distinguished rand may even possibly ome day
s:.ruish those cootacios ,iestne ;f the nes thought.

I May. 1918

Numrber 8

the Socialists, the anarchists. and the I. W  W's  Wht
we advocate is the true democracy. the democracy f fr-c
love, the bohemian life. and a less artificial state of socity
such as existo in Russia and Mexico, even today,
It has been the aim and endeavor of the Wisconsn
Literary Magazine to prove to a world grown tired of
hoping, that the Engineers, the Ags. the Commerce men.
nd thelawyersdo notdafter all. coun for much. andie-
causen-c heaed andhbeeddtheyveaning cyof a hnrnts-
starving in an intellectual wilderness, and took ulor
forselves the labor of love of expressing and interpretmt
for the benefit of th masses the best and most peofoUd
in art. drama, poetry and free verse, we are beset by.
howling pack of ignoramuses whose highest thought is
to publish a daily paper and who affect to believe that -
sonorous essay. even though it does make just as much
sense if read backwards, is less important than defendit
the University's good name against the yellow pres
What would these carping critics have known about
Dostoyevsky and Turgenev and Sneezitoff, had we ot
told them? What do they know now that we have told
them? Think of the cultural influence of being permitted
to read articles. critiques, and the like. by us, who cut
speak so casually of Plato and Kant and Tolstoi. and wh-
can sling the qua's and vide's and neos with just the sam
degree of nonchalance as Chili Al exhibits while he sling
the bash. Imagine. if you can, the gratitude of the neo-
phytes of learning who first heard of Imagery through
oUr gracious efforts. Think what long vistas of delight
and contemplation have been opened to the undergraif-
Oates of Wisconsin through the gateway of our propa
ganda for Russian literature  What Hill man has not
been helped to a clearer understanding of Aristotle, Qui
tilian, Julius Caesar Scaliger. De Maupassant. Tennysto
Reethoven. Young. Lord Castlereagh. Joshua Sylvester.
Dr, Donne. Abraham Cowley. John Dryden, Goethe.
Oscar Wilde. Milton. Collins, Shelley, Southey, Walt
Whitman, Arno Holz, Spenser, Emerson. Ezra Ounce
and a score of others)
With these fec   t roak' a  think ti he povl thr0
our  t..llectali   -r. nt  r-'''   rn I  Pjn','.   -  ' nr]
prefer to think

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