THE LITTLE REVIEW Literature Drama Music Art MARGARET C. ANDERSON EDITOR AUGUST, 1916 A Real Magazine Margaret C. Anderson Wakefulness Amy Lowell Plymouth Rocks R. G. Ulysse Fait Son Lit Jean de Bosschere Modernity Exposed: Caesar Zwaska Sandburg’s Chicago Poems The Case of Masters The Poet Sings to the World Ben Hecht Splendid Isolation John Grimes The Tree Helen Hoyt Editorials and Announcements Julia to Jim Sue Golden A Vers Libre Contest The Reader Critic Published Monthly 15 cents a copy MARGARET C. ANDERSON, Publisher Montgomery Block SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. $1.50 a year Entered as second-class matter at Postoffice, San Francisco, Cal. THE LITTLE REVIEW VOL. III AUGUST, 1916 NO. 5 Copyright, 1916, by Margaret C. Anderson A Real Magazine MARGARET C. ANDERSON I am afraid to write anything; I am ashamed. I have been realizing the ridiculous tragedy of _The Little Review_. It has been published for over two years without coming near its ideal. * * * * * The ultimate reason for life is Art. I don’t know what they mean when they talk about art for life’s sake. You don’t make art so that you may live; you do just the reverse of that. Life takes care of itself, rolls on from the first push, and then falls over the edge. Art uses up all the life it can get—and remains forever. Art for Art’s sake is merely the sensible statement of the most self-evident fact in the world. It has been the easy creed of charlatans; but what does that matter? It has always been the faith of the strongest. Well—I wanted Art in _The Little Review_. There has been a little of it, just a very little.... It is tragic. I tell you. And Revolution? Revolution _is_ Art. You want free people just as you want the Venus that was modelled by the sea.... All my inadequate stammerings about Emma Goldman have been to show her as the artist she is: a great artist, working in her own material as a Michael Angelo worked in his.