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nals to make an impression on me as a boy. . . It was the first American magazine that ever actually bought and paid for a poem of mine. . . I fear that I do not read any magazine in the world regularly and persistently. And I do not expect to find, ever, in any one journal, all facets of truth and opinion. But when The Outlook comes my way, I admit that I find it congenial for its temperate, calm, and sensible scrutiny of our present discontents, its humor and wide-mindedness in consideration of literary matters, and a general feeling that I get to the effect that

the paper is solidly rooted in judgment but not in the least unready to welcome the aliquid novi that deserves hospitality. Let me put it this way: From time to time I have offered one-act plays to various magazine editors; usually they are greatly shocked and reply that a one-act play is quite outside their province. I have a ridiculous feeling that The Outlook would publish even a one-act play if it thought it amusing or for any reason at all worth ink. Perhaps The Outlook, is in essence more liberal than many a weekly that makes a much louder shout about being a friend of that mysterious thing called liberty.

Chrisgher Morley

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a good deal like commenting on a member of one's own family; it has for so long been a part of my life and thought that it is hard for me to regard it objectively. Long ago I came to rely upon it as a sound interpreter of current thought through whose eyes I could view the world of thought and action with a considerable degree of understanding and accurate judgment. Religious, social, economic, literary, and other prob

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lems have found fair statement within the pages of The Outlook through al these years, and for the broad spirit, the cultured mind, and the sympathetic heart which have been reflected in its pages I have long had a sincere affection and respect. I wish that its message of practical idealism, sound living and thinking might be carried far beyond the splendid selected audience which it has long reached so effectively. It is one which a disorderly world greatly needs to-day.

Her Sisson