Normally I don't go back in time to pick up issues that escape me, but I've got a little extra time today, so this will be an extended edition of--
Quick Notes:
Beatrice Hastings' "Impressions of Paris" contains reflections on people she calls "calmatives," the people who suppress panic in cities and in the military. More dramatically, she excoriates airplanes as weapons of war, and prophesies that they will end cites because people will want to spread out to avoid gas bombings!
R.H.C. (Orage) launches an attack on a new literary journal, The Gypsy. I imagine it will be short-lived because I can't find much about it online right now.
This issue also contains an allegorically/satirical story, "The Placard" by Arthur F. Thorn (Beatrice Hastings?). It is an attack on The New Age's arch-nemesis, The Daily Mail. In it, the author accuses Lord Northcliffe of conspiring with the Germans to end the war--at the end of the essay, "Organgrind" (Northcliffe) comes up with his antiwar slogan, "Peace with Honour." Whoa. (134).
In the correspondence section, there's a letter by Ramiro de Maetzu debating luxury with Beatrice Hastings. It has some cool moments: "an article of luxury, like a Louis XV chair, is a kind of myth." I would dwell on this debate more--perhaps in the next post. Which I ought to go write.
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