New Quarterly

Gamaliel Bradford, Archibald Henderson, Luigi Pirandello, Witter Bynner, Joseph Collins--with these, among lesser names, did the Virginia Quarterly Review (issued by the University of Virginia) dress out a maiden number dated April, 1925. Editor James Southall Wilson, Professor of English at the University, explained that this was only natural. Old tunes best demonstrate a new organ. For the future, the Quarterly coveted "the adventure of presenting distinguished first work wherever it can be found." It would be, in a measure, "peculiarly concerned with themes growing out of the life of the South and especially cordial to the work of able Southern writers," but in no sense sectional. It hoped, in brief, "to be intelligently entertaining."