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Acolyte, v. 3, issue 1, whole no. 9, Winter 1945
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around quite a bit. Yet spiritually, rather than in the flesh, he was, as I see it, a stay-at-home--too closely linked, for his age, to his parents, and especially to his mother; though he had a great esteem and affection for his father, and a solicitude whose sincerity was beautiful to note. He told me, many a time, how he had to "look after" his parents; whereas my impression was that Dr. Howard, then about 65, was quite capable of looking after himself in all financial and material ways. Dr. Howard was a man of intense vitality and strong personality. Only recently has his health begun to fail. I do not know how active his practice was at the time I met him; he was what's called a "country doctor", a rugged and sturdy type that is today all too rare. But while these "country doctors" rarely became affluent, they rarely lack the proper comforts of life, the modest requirements of their station. So, I felt that something other than material consideration of his parents' welfare was behind Robert's statements. Manifestly, his suicide wasn't an act tending toward his surviving parent's welfare! With all affection and respect, I repeat what is my conviction: that it was the act of a 5-year-old's emotion driving a grown and rugged man accustomed to firearms and violence; and that while mere absences from home would not have changed his emotional set-up, the normal keen interests which inevitably make most of us finally see home as a pleasant memory rather than as that without which there is no use living, would have saved REH.... BOOK REVIEW -- Francis T. Laney. Alan Swallow, Editor. American writing, 1943. The Anthology and Year-Book of the American Non-Commercial Magazine. Bruce Humphries, Inc., 30 Winchester Street, Boston, Mas., 1944. Price $2.50 This 161 page volume should be of prime interest to every fan magazine editor or contributor. Consisting exclusively of reprinted items from the so-called "little" magazines, it is an annual volume which attempts to give more permanent form to the best of the semi-professional material. Since fan publishing may properly be considered a segment of the "little" magazine field--though one of its more obscure facets--fan editors should consider the possibility of being reprinted in some subsequent volume of the series. American Writing, 1943 contains eight short stories, fifty poems, several pages of honorable mentions, a complete listing of currently published "little" magazines, and an exceptionally interesting and stimulating introductory essay. Despite a certain unevenness in quality, the bulk of the selections proved themselves thoroughly satisfactory, and the volume as a whole compares quite favorably with other, more highly touted, anthologies of different types. It may be of interest to Acolyte readers to note that Cosette Middleton (author of Strange Entity in the last issue of The Acolyte) is represented by a semi-fantastic poem, Code. Fantasy is otherwise largely conspicuous by its absence, but a letter from the editor of this volume, Alan Swallow, states that he was not familiar with the fan publishing field, and that he would like to receive fan magazines for consideration in making future selections. Since Mr. Swallow is at present in the armed forces, we suggest that interested editors contact us for his address. If the space to the immediate left of this sentence carries a rubber-stamped date, "Jan 1", it means that your subscription has expired, and that a renewal is in order. --FTL/SDR -- 16 --
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around quite a bit. Yet spiritually, rather than in the flesh, he was, as I see it, a stay-at-home--too closely linked, for his age, to his parents, and especially to his mother; though he had a great esteem and affection for his father, and a solicitude whose sincerity was beautiful to note. He told me, many a time, how he had to "look after" his parents; whereas my impression was that Dr. Howard, then about 65, was quite capable of looking after himself in all financial and material ways. Dr. Howard was a man of intense vitality and strong personality. Only recently has his health begun to fail. I do not know how active his practice was at the time I met him; he was what's called a "country doctor", a rugged and sturdy type that is today all too rare. But while these "country doctors" rarely became affluent, they rarely lack the proper comforts of life, the modest requirements of their station. So, I felt that something other than material consideration of his parents' welfare was behind Robert's statements. Manifestly, his suicide wasn't an act tending toward his surviving parent's welfare! With all affection and respect, I repeat what is my conviction: that it was the act of a 5-year-old's emotion driving a grown and rugged man accustomed to firearms and violence; and that while mere absences from home would not have changed his emotional set-up, the normal keen interests which inevitably make most of us finally see home as a pleasant memory rather than as that without which there is no use living, would have saved REH.... BOOK REVIEW -- Francis T. Laney. Alan Swallow, Editor. American writing, 1943. The Anthology and Year-Book of the American Non-Commercial Magazine. Bruce Humphries, Inc., 30 Winchester Street, Boston, Mas., 1944. Price $2.50 This 161 page volume should be of prime interest to every fan magazine editor or contributor. Consisting exclusively of reprinted items from the so-called "little" magazines, it is an annual volume which attempts to give more permanent form to the best of the semi-professional material. Since fan publishing may properly be considered a segment of the "little" magazine field--though one of its more obscure facets--fan editors should consider the possibility of being reprinted in some subsequent volume of the series. American Writing, 1943 contains eight short stories, fifty poems, several pages of honorable mentions, a complete listing of currently published "little" magazines, and an exceptionally interesting and stimulating introductory essay. Despite a certain unevenness in quality, the bulk of the selections proved themselves thoroughly satisfactory, and the volume as a whole compares quite favorably with other, more highly touted, anthologies of different types. It may be of interest to Acolyte readers to note that Cosette Middleton (author of Strange Entity in the last issue of The Acolyte) is represented by a semi-fantastic poem, Code. Fantasy is otherwise largely conspicuous by its absence, but a letter from the editor of this volume, Alan Swallow, states that he was not familiar with the fan publishing field, and that he would like to receive fan magazines for consideration in making future selections. Since Mr. Swallow is at present in the armed forces, we suggest that interested editors contact us for his address. If the space to the immediate left of this sentence carries a rubber-stamped date, "Jan 1", it means that your subscription has expired, and that a renewal is in order. --FTL/SDR -- 16 --
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