Evening star., 1937-12-19

for oetense, but not one cent for
tribute!" Edward personally fought
among the pirates, had duels with his
literary rivals and celebrated the
beauty OF the lady he loved in lyric
verse.
So on through the history of the
neighboring State, from earliest CO.
lonial times up until the present.
Washingtonians should find consider
able to interest them in this volume.
A NEWS bulletin received by the
reviewer this week announces
that in London new inn has recently
been opened to carry on the tradition
OF the "cogers," a group of literary
men which was founded in 1755, and
which has included among its MEM
bers Samuel Johnson, Boswell, Oliver
Goldsmith, Edmund Burke, Thomas
Macaulay, William Cowper, Charles
Dickens, Thomas Hardy and many
other writer's of great fame. The frst
meetings Of the group, formally called
aye Ancient Society of Cogers," were
held in Cogers' Hall, but later men,
pClo VI UliC kdll1CI lllk pIdIc
to THE Barley Now" in Salisbury
court. This building was demolished
last year, but the new building which
is to house the present members of
the society has been erected on its
site
A "coger," 1t may be said, is sup
posed to be a person well versed in
fine arts, among which the members
include the art of dining and drink
ing well. The word apparently Is de-
rived from "cognoscente," a somewhat
corrupted form.
THERE seems to be current move
ment abroad among magazine
publishers to revive the liveliness of
the quarterly. Quarterlies, until very
recently, as the reviewer hardly needs
to say, have been the most serious of
publications; they have been devoted
to grave cummings up of graver mat
ters; they have been dignified, gen.
orally we'll written and quite pointless,
since events move so rapidly now that
the shrewdest representations are
often out of date fortnight after
their making. But within the past
month this solemn field has been in
vaded by two newcomers of distinctly
frivolous character.
The first of these the reviewer has
already mentioned. 1t is You, a mag
azine given over, with great and heavy
glamour. to what are known as fem
mime interests" AS far as the reviewer
knows it is the only magazine based
on such fragile claims to memory to
take the quarterly's inevitable risk
of being forgotten between seasons.
The second new quarterly is just out
it is called Pleasure, and can be
disposed of by saying that it is one
more imitation of Esquire. 1t has
Esquires cartoonists and artists in
large number, and naturally the vis-
ible resemblance is patent. The articles
are fewer than Esquire's and more
limited in scope; they see INTO aim
chiefly at covering the more expensive
sports. However, even in them the
likeness to the model is clearly ap-
parent.
If there is any reason for the new
conner beyond conviction on the pub
lLsher's part that Esquire's handsome
profits will bear division four times
| year, the reviewer cannot see what
| it is. However, Pleasure is now on
the stands and if you want to en-
courage the growth of lighter quarter
lies, why there it is.
The reviewers own opinion is that
an imitation Is always an imitation
and that the plethora Of second-rate
Esquires, which already clogs the mar
ket, indicates that it Is high time
somebody in the magazine field had a
new idea. Or else got out-one of the
six.
THE reviewer should add that she
is effusively happy this week to
be able to tell her public that she is
| a mere book critic no longer. She
has, indeed, progressed beyond the
ranks of intellectual day labor and
has gone up in the world to the point
where she takes her place today as
part and parcel of the American Scene
You have heard of the American
Scene? Well, there you are. The
reviewer, even as she types these words,
is part and parcl Of that same.