Part 3

Every artist is the _sole_ judge of _his own art_. Don’t you know that? You may not _like_ his art—but you have no right to say that it is _not_ art. It is the embodiment of his ideal, and this is all that art is—an embodiment of an ideal by the soul that conceived the ideal. There is no such thing as good art or bad art. There is only _art_. Of course, you, as an editor, cannot publish every boy’s art. You must discriminate and select, to appeal as far as possible to your clientele. But don’t presume to say that what you reject is _not art_.

All that an editor can ever be as to art is a medium between the artist and the world. All that he can ever do is to bring the artist to the light of day that the latter may have a chance to speak the word to those of whom it is the word of life as it is for himself. This is all that the editor can do for _himself_ even as an _artist_. The editor who fails to do this is unworthy to be an editor.

We Also Await

_Anonymous_:

I have never enjoyed any number of _The Little Review_ so much as the September. Those blank pages linked with the cosmos: space before creation. I await Prometheus.

Everyone scolds you. May I? Forget propaganda and give us beauty, eternal, immutable, radiant beauty.

So Did We

_Daphne Carr, Columbia, Missouri_:

I bless your new enthusiasm and its effects. That half blank number was splendid—what there was of it, but I wanted to see as spirited things on the other pages too.

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The poems published in the Vers Libre Contest are still in the hands of the judges. There were two hundred and two poems, thirty-two of which were returned because they were either Shakespearean sonnets or rhymed quatrains or couplets. Manuscripts will be returned as promptly as they are rejected, providing the contestants sent postage.

The results will be announced in our December issue, and the prize poems published.

—The Contest Editor.

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Transcriber’s Notes

Advertisements were collected at the end of the text.

The table of contents on the title page was adjusted in order to reflect correctly the headings in this issue of THE LITTLE REVIEW.

The original spelling was mostly preserved. A few obvious typographical errors were silently corrected. All other changes are shown here (before/after):

[p. 2]: ... Here. ... ... Hera. ...

[p. 4]: ... It was Akmene, whom I once loved, who first brought you to me. ... ... It was Alkmene, whom I once loved, who first brought you to me. ...

[p. 9]: (multiple cases) ... read the other three, or have ever heard of Martin Anderson Nexo? I ... ... read the other three, or have ever heard of Martin Anderson Nexø? I ...

[p. 11]: ... “The most ‘modern’ writer Paris can boast, not excepting Apollonaire,” ... ... “The most ‘modern’ writer Paris can boast, not excepting Apollinaire,” ...

[p. 14]: ... O Beute misérable, tu as perdu! ... ... O Brute misérable, tu as perdu! ...

[p. 24]: ... Blessed Isles, floating without our sphere, situate in the fourth dimension. Come to ... ... Blessed Isles, floating without our sphere, situated in the fourth dimension. Come to ...