Louis Puteklis, Cambridge, Mass: ... You see it is a fact that your “art for art’s sake” cannot exist without supporters: nothing is free from economic conditions which are the creators and destroyers of people’s tendencies and deeds. Although I appreciate your surprising efforts, I must confess that I cannot yet agree with your dictum as to “the two most important radical organs of contemporary literature.” Until you strike your roots deeper you cannot soar so high. As for me, I am in touch already with many other radical magazines in English and in other languages. Radicalism does not consist in vers libre which murmurs about green grass, soft kisses, clinging limbs, ecstasy and faintness, the surprises of passionate intercourse. There is too much of such sensual poetry: Solomon long ago played the changes on that theme. Such poems come perilously near the emanations of diseased sexual appetites. There is neither life nor originality in them. When I read “green grass,” I know that I am close upon “clinging limbs.” Drink deeper of the Pierian fount; don’t disturb the grasshoppers! I think that _The Little Review_ must scatter more sensible seed in the future and throw away the tares. It will do better, I believe, to take for its province: Literature, Life, Science; all the fine arts are too much for its scope; each has its own organs. Still _The Little Review_ is doing good. Long life to it and may it do better! [You see, we said that _The Egoist_ and _The Little Review_ are radical organs of contemporary literature. That’s all: not economic, social, or religious. As we have stated a number of times: since all the arts are from the same source we are not getting out of our province or making our scope too wide by keeping to Art. Your advice about reducing to Literature, Life, Science, is a great compliment to our scope, but—well, for the present we can’t take up such limited and special subjects as Life, or such obvious and untaxing ones as Science.—_jh._] The Little Review Book Shop You may order any book you want from us and we have the facilities for delivering or mailing it to you at whatever time you specify. You may come in and look over our stock and take your selections with you. Some of the books you will want are these: James Joyce’s _Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man_. $1.50 Nexo’s _Pelle the Conqueror_. Four volumes, $5.00 Gilbert Cannan’s _Mendel_. $1.50 Romain Rolland’s _Jean Christophe_. Three volumes, $5.00 D. H. Lawrence’s _Prussian Officer_ and _Twilight in Italy_, $1.50 each. Ethel Sidgwick’s _Promise_ and _Succession_. Each $1.50 Ezra Pound’s _Memoir of Gaudier-Brzeska_. $3.50 _The Imagist Anthology, 1917._ 75 cents _Verharen’s Love Poems_, translated by Flint, Arthur Symons, etc. $1.50 Willard Huntington Wright’s _Modern Painting_ and _The Creative Will_. $2.50 and $1.50 Tagore’s _Reminiscences_ and _Personality_. Each $1.50