The Dial/Volume 68/Number 1

THE

DIAL

January 1920

Dusk	Gaston Lachaise
An Autobiographic Chapter	Randolph Bourne	1
Seven Poems	E. E. Cummings	22
National Winter Garden Burlesque	E. E. Cummings
Charles Martin Loeffler	Paul Rosenfeld	27
Saké and Song	Sydney Greenbie	33
Inferential	Edwin Arlington Robinson	46
A Tragic End	Gilbert Cannan	47
Boardman Robinson	Ivan Oppfer
Two Prisoners: Russia, 1915	Boardman Robinson
The Art of the American Indian	Walter S. Pach	57
Thomas Hardy	Arthur Symons	66
Nine Poems	Evelyn Scott	71
A Box of Tricks	Charles Demuth
The Spirit of the Old Hotel	John Gould Fletcher	77
Edith Wharton	Charles K. Trueblood	80
Two Essays	Maxwell Bodenheim	92
Making Heaven Safe for Democracy	Helen Sard Hughes	99
The Lawyers Know Too Much	Carl Sandburg	106
A Competent Critic	Sganarelle	107
Jacinto Benavente	Williams Haynes	113
A Casual Virtuist	Charles Kay	119
An Illustrator	Thomas J. Craven	121
An English Lyrist	Edward Shanks	126
Romanticism Enjoined	William A. Nitze	131

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NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS

Gaston Lachaise came to this country about fifteen years ago and now makes his home in New York.

An Autobiographic Chapter is a fragment of an autobiographical novel, which Randolph Bourne had been writing shortly before his death.

E. E. Cummings, now living in New York, has not previously published in any of the regular periodicals.

Sydney Greenbie has recently returned from the Far East, where he travelled for five years.

Ivan Oppfer is a Danish artist resident in New York.

Evelyn Scott, who has been living for the past few years in South America, is just beginning to publish her verse and prose.

Charles Demuth is a young American artist who, having studied abroad, now resides in his former home, Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Helen Sard Hughes is a member of the faculty of the University of Iowa.

Sganarelle is the pen-name of an American critic and political journalist.

Williams Haynes is a dramatic critic formerly connected with The Northampton Players.

Thomas J. Craven, formerly Professor of English in the University of Porto Rico, has studied art in the United States and Europe and has also published verse in various magazines.

Edward Shanks is associated with The London Mercury, a monthly review, the first number of which appeared in November.

William B. Marsh has been elected Secretary-Treasurer of The Dial Publishing Company.

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