The Press: New English Weekly

Last month there came back in London, after a ten-year literary absence without leave, Editor Alfred Richard Orage with a new magazine, The New English Weekly. As editor of The New Age from 1907 to 1922 he was considered England's best by not a few for not a few reasons. Such prestige did his magazine have, so much literary loyalty did its editor inspire, that literati contributed mostly without pay, among them Shaw, Chesterton, Galsworthy, Arnold Bennett, Havelock Ellis, Wyndham Lewis. Editor Orage's special genius lay in discovering new writers, helping them develop...

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