_Read_-- _Some Southern Snapshots_ by GEORGE S. SCHUYLER in the December issue of NEW MASSES In this article Mr. Schuyler, a Negro writer, gives short sketches of Negro-white incidents in various Southern states. Negro boys and girls, men and women, insulted, arrested, hounded out of town, beaten, molested, and killed for imaginary, or at the most, ridiculously small and superficial acts. New details of the same old stories. See the November and December issues of NEW MASSES _for our Special Christmas Book Offers_ 25 CENTS A COPY --------------------------------------------------------------------- _Rip This Off and Mail_ NEW MASSES 39 West Eighth Street, New York. Enclosed find {$2.00} for a {year’s } subscription to the NEW MASSES: {$1.00} {6 months’} _Name_ -------------------------------- _Address_ -------------------------------- -------------------------------- Please send sample copies to: 1. _Name_ ------------------------------ _Address_ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ 2. _Name_ ------------------------------ _Address_ ------------------------------ ------------------------------ [Illustration] _Foreword_ _FIRE_ ... _flaming, burning, searing, and penetrating far beneath the superficial items of the flesh to boil the sluggish blood._ _FIRE_ ... _a cry of conquest in the night, warning those who sleep and revitalizing those who linger in the quiet places dozing._ _FIRE_ ... _melting steel and iron bars, poking livid tongues between stone apertures and burning wooden opposition with a cackling chuckle of contempt._ _FIRE_ ... _weaving vivid, hot designs upon an ebon bordered loom and satisfying pagan thirst for beauty unadorned ... the flesh is sweet and real ... the soul an inward flush of fire.... Beauty?... flesh on fire--on fire in the furnace of life blazing._... “_Fy-ah, Fy-ah, Lawd, Fy-ah gonna burn ma soul!_” [Illustration] FIRE! _A Quarterly Devoted to the Younger Negro Artists_ _Wishes to Thank the Following Persons Who Acted as Patrons For the First Issue_ [Illustration] MAURINE BOIE, _Minneapolis, Minn._ NELLIE R. BRIGHT, _Philadelphia, Pa._ ARTHUR HUFF FAUSET, _Philadelphia, Pa._ DOROTHY HUNT HARRIS, _New York City_ ARTHUR P. MOOR, _Harrisburg, Pa._ DOROTHY R. PETERSON, _Brooklyn, N. Y._ MR. AND MRS. JOHN PETERSON, _New York City_ E. B. TAYLOR, _Baltimore, Md._ CARL VAN VECHTEN, _New York City_ [Illustration]