I like the July number a lot. It’s consistently good all through. The only thing I was disappointed in was the “Imaginary Letters”. It’s so damned British! It’s very clever, there’s no question—but to me at least it lacks beauty. The T. S. Eliot poems are in something the same vein but much more mature, and awfully well written. I like the Ezra Pound very much—in fact everything else. [I can’t see why Lewis’s Letter is any more essentially British than Nietzsche’s “Flies in the Market Place”. And since it is very good writing why hasn’t it beauty?—_M. C. A._] Reproach ... I am sorry about one thing,—you don’t seem to be able to get rid of the propaganda. All the things Pound sends you are in a way propaganda. If not, what are they trying to do; just shock people? Eliot’s poem about the Church is all right. That sort of thing ought to be said and he has said it so well that it will get over. But I think his “Lune de Miel” is disgusting, in one line simply impossible. I am terribly interested, but I do wish they would be a little more delicate. [I am with you on the propaganda. Extermination seems simple and direct and lasting and the only solution to me. Shocking people I believe is a fever of extreme youth which cools very soon,—as soon as caught almost. If one could only shock them to the foundations there might be some interest, but they are never shocked beyond where they are always trembling anyway. Eliot is quite outside that kind of interest. We are known, in magazine lingo, as a class magazine. At first I was puzzled as to what that meant. But when a distinguished foreigner, a man who might have competed with the Jodindranath of Ezra Pound’s article, said that that article was a “matter for police suppression” I thought that he was probably the only person qualified to understand it. There is that class. And then there is the other class,—the one expressed by the gentleman who laughingly said: “There is a number of such backgrounds that should be so exploited”.—_jh._] War Art B. C., Kansas: _The Little Review_ is the only magazine I have laid eyes on in months that hasn’t had a word in it about this blasted war. How do you do it?