A pocket edition would be very acceptable, an ideal travel companion, but the volume before us strictly intended for the library. expansive, thrilling pages lie with deceptive docility between shrieking purple covers, diagonally across lette: appearing the single each, in thrustful, defiant black
word "Bla: The book has nothing to do with the war.
Dynamite and kindred powers are not once mentioned; nor quarrying. 'Blast' simply—perhaps not quite so simply as purely—a magazine about art, re" volutionary art, art as conceived by an unconventional set of young men calling themselves "Vorti Having something new and striking, and strange, to say about t, and finding—_ themselves unable to express their sublime originality after the style of the "Futurists" "Aesthetes," ''Impressionists,"" "Cubiste," and others, they have produced their own quarterly magazine, thus securing independent medium for those "vivid and violent ideas' which would seem to constitute the essence of "Vorticism.""
Interspersing these diagrams are lists of China's minerals, valuable The Art of Anathematising. data regarding productions and a good deal that the merchant needs to know about exchange, treaty ports and so forth. One of the tables, which sets out to show how long letters take from Shanghai to pretty well every important town in China, we must take exception to, however. It is a happy idea to include it, and we are not condemning the Far Eastern Geographical Establishment for doing so. It would be more useful if only the Chinese Post Office kept to the time of this official table in interior deliveries!
An Index book accompanies the map. This is arranged so that each It is in the nature of things that these vivid and violent young rebels should begin their book by one thematizing the things they do not like. The black list includes all sorts of people and thin "Long live the great art vortex sprung uP in the centre of this (London) town" cries the editor (Mr. Wyndham Lewis). We want to Jeave nature and men alone. We do not want to change the appearance of the world. We only want the world to live and to feel its crude energy flowing through What this crude world-eners¥ flowing through the veins vf 1i¢ vorticists is may be left to the
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.