The Press: The American Mercury

Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. (publishers of "Borzoi" books), announced the publication of a new magazine, The American Mercury. Its editors will be H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan. Its appearance will be monthly, beginning about the first of next year. Those who are acquainted with The London Mercury, so ably conducted by the poet and parodist, J. C. Squire, will hardly expect the new Mercury to be a prototype of the old. The American Mercury plans to offer "a comprehensive picture, critically presented, of the entire American scene "—fine arts,...

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