The trimmed lamp Volume 1-2 ; a periodical of life and art

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 ...been done so far, do what they can to help. This "help" is two-fold. First, of course, is the sending in of names, and the securing of subscriptions. But there is another kind of help that is of no less importance, to I want to know just what pleases you and what does not. I want every reader to feel that a direct responsibility rests upon his or her shoulders for what goes into the pages of Art. If you like a certain feature, tell me so, I beg of you. But if you dislike another, I beg of you--I would make this even stronger--tell me that also. I will not guarantee to follow advice. One who tries to please all, pleases nobody. There are two ways of making a magazine. In one, the editor--or more likely, the editors; for this type of periodical is usually a corporate affair--keeps a sensitive finger on the public pulse, and gives it what it wants. In the other, the editor gives what he wants to give. It is the latter line I purpose to follow. I shall treat Art as a novelist treats his book. Davy Crockett "Be sure you're right--then go ahead." The only trouble with that epigram is that no one ever knows absolutely the difference between right and wrong. A better motto, I think, "Be sure you're sincere--then go ahead." As to plans for the future--there are none. But I have the promise of a number of good things. Doctor Gunsaulus will contribute from time to time. Louis Betts has never written for publication, but I have every hope of making him begin. He is such a tremendously sane and simple-minded man that when he does it will be worth while. Robert Conklin, the photographer, whose wonderful work has already been seen in Art, has promised to tell his views on photography as a fine art. Mary Wood Hinman, the great e...