Ogden Daily Standard | 1919-04-19 | Page 4 | The Egotist of the Magazines

oo THE EGOTIST OF THE MAGAZINES. For genuine conceit, the following introductory to 'The Roiew," a new magazine, is without parallel-Some parallel-Some months ago. a movement was started to establish a weekly Journal of general culture, devoted devot-ed to the maintenance of constructive construc-tive public policies based on sound American principles. The movement was actuated by a recognition rec-ognition of the urgent need at this time of a journal of serious discussion dis-cussion which should resist the unthinking drift towards radical innovation The most notable of our weekly week-ly journals of discussion such as The New Republic, The Nation, and The Dial so far from oppoo ing this drift, have themselYel become be-come its chief promoters The upheaval up-heaval produced by the war has been exploited in the interest of projects, however crude, to brins; about a new dispensation from which it is imagined that somehow some-how the brotherhood of man will emerge. This immature but seductive se-ductive propaganda adds the voices of a considerable body of intellectuals to the clamor aroused among the masses by the most demagogic of our daily papers. The manifest need of a journal that shall represent the more sober so-ber thought of the nation has led a lare number of citizens of the highest standinc throughout the country to form the stock com-Danv com-Danv which will nubllsh The Re view. How regrettable that so much of the wisdom of this great nation is locked up in the craniums of a few wiseacres. A Journal of great culture, it is announced, an-nounced, is to be established In other oth-er words, the editors declare them- selves to be most capable culturlsts and to be pop os5ed of exceptional ability There is too mueh egotism disclosed to allow of much philosophy.