New Masses tables of contents 1926 and 1927 =========================================== [No table of contents was printed in Vol 1. No. 1... only a list of contributors. I constructed one for it, and also present below the original list of contributors printed in the issue ---marty 2017] Vol. 1 No. 1 May, 1926 IN THIS ISSUE: THE WRITERS: BABETTE DEUTSCH, winner of this year's "Nation" Poetry Prize, has published two volumes of poetry. She has recently visited Soviet Russia. ROBERT DUNN is the author of "American Foreign Investments" and co-author with Sidney Howard of "The Labor Spy." ROBINSON JEFFERS' "Roan Stallion, Tamar and Other Poems," published last year, established him as one of the important contemporary American poets, He lives in Carmel, Calif. WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS is well known as physician, modernist, poet and story-writer, and is the author of "In the American Crain ... NATHAN ASCH is the author of a collection of vivid short stories published last year under the title, "The Office." He lives in Paris. NORMAN STUDER Ia one of the editors of the "New Student." M. H. HEDGES, editor of the official organ of the Electrical Workers' Union, is the author of several labor novels. ART SHIELDS is on the staff of the Federated Press. He has covered scores of strikes in the industry of which he writes. KAROL REMBOV is the pseudonym of a young student and writer in the field of labor. HAL SAUNDERS WHITE is a member of the faculty of Yale University. EDWIN SEAVER is a young poet and critic living In New York. GEORGE STERLING is San Francisco's poet and First Citizen. SCOTT NEARING, recently returned from Soviet Russia, is well known as a radical educator and author. He lectures to tens of thousands of American workingmen yearly. WHITTAKER CHAMBERS is a young poet, who recently left Columbia in prates' against the censorship of the undergraduate literary magazine. THE ARTISTS: WILLIAM GROPPER, remembered for his drawings in the "Liberator" and "Dial," is now drawing regularly for the "Sunday World" and "Freiheit." ADOLPH DEHN is a young Minnesota artist, who has been spending the past two years in Paris and Vienna. STUART DAVIS is a painter and one of the first contributors of the old "Masses." ART YOUNG was with the old "Masses" from the start. He was a contributing editor of the "Liberator" and is now embellishing the pages of "Life" and the "Saturday Evening Post." I. KLEIN is a young artist of promise whose work was firat seen in the .. New Yorker." BOARDMAN ROBINSON Is known for his fine drawings in the old "Masses" and "Liberator." He accompanied John Reed on his first trip to Russia during the war. WANDA GAG is a young painter who will hold an exhibition at Weyhe'a Galleries in the fall. LOUIS LOZOWICK is a painter, and author of ''Modern Russian Art." He designed the sets for "Gas," the mechanistic play recently presented in Chicago. F. S. HYND is a student at the Art Student's League. The NEW MASSES presents his first published drawing. OTTO SOCLOW was one of the younger contributors of the "Liberator." HANS STENGEL, formerly one of the editors of .. Simplicissimus, .. now contributes to many American magazines. A. RONNEBECK is a sculptor whose exhibitions in New York and Europe have attracted wide attention ====================================== Vol 1. No. 1 May 1926 [table of contents for May 1926 created May 2017 by marty] Cover Design by Hugo Gellert 03 Drawing - Signs of Spring - by A. Ronnebeck 04 Drawing - The Great American Melodrama - by William Gropper 05 A Dialog in Limbo - by Babette Deutsch 05 Drawing - Unemployed - Adolph Dehn 06 Drawing - In A Florica Auto Camp - Stuart Davis 07 John Sherman's Progress - by Robert Dunn 07 Drawing - Where Do We Eat - by Art Young 08 Drawing - Tehuantepic Indian - Maurice Becker 09 Around the Maypole - by Michael Gold 09 Drawing - Cops - by William Gropper 10 Poem - Apology for Bad Dreams - by Robinson Jeffers 10 Drawing - Stuart Davis 11 Bishop Bares All - William Montgomery Brown 12 Drawing - Find god in this picture - I. Klein 13 The Bus Boy - by Nathan Asch 13 Drawing - American Heros - by Boardman Robinson 14 The Battle of Passaic - by Mary Heaton Vorse 14 Drawing - Even Workers Ride in Autos in America - by I. Klien 15 Poem - Song of New York - by Claude McKay 15 Poem - Memories - by Marc Van Doren 15 That's All There Is - Karol Rembov 15 Drawing - The Tired Bed - by Wanda Gag 16 Revolt of the American Colleges - by Norman Studer 16 Drawing - The Age of Innocence - by Hugo Gellert 17 Drawing - Steady, There - by Bobritsky 18 Return of the Native - by Scott Nearing 18 Poem - Advice to Hamlets - by James Rorty 18 Drawing - Beggars - by Art Young 19 The Five Dollar Guy - by William Carlos Williams 19 Drawing - Synthetic Revolutionists - by Stuart Davis 20 The War of Cultures - by M. H. Hedges 20 Drawing - Saturday Night - by Wanda Gag 21 Three Poems - by Hal Saunders White 21 Coal is Cheaper Now - by Art Shields 21 Drawing - Steel Girders - by Louis Lozowick 22 The Mechanical Ballet and the New Enchantment - by Edwin Seaver 22 Poem - Railroad Yards - by Whittaker Chambers 22 Drawing - Go-Getters' Holiday - by Hans Stengel 23-24 Book Reviews by: James Rorty, Robert Dunn and Edwin Seaver 23 Poem - No Taller than a Cross - by Witter Bynner 23 Drawing by - Louis Lozowick 24 Drawing - New Yori Streets - by Otto Soglow 27 Drawing - Mid-Afternoon - by F. S. Hynd 29 Poem - Grasshopper - by George Sterling ======================== Vol. 1 No. 2 June, 1926 ======================== Cover Design by Stuart Davis 03 Drawing - by D. Burliuk 04 Drawing - by Hugo Gellert 05 British Labor Walks Out - by Eomont Arens 06 Anything Can Happen in Los Anueles-bu James Rorty 06-07 Two Drawings - by A. Walkowitz 08 Passaic Symposium by: John Dos Passos, Robert Dunn, Marguerite Tucker, Grace Lumpkin, Esther Lowell, Arthur Garfield Hays, Margaret Larkin and Norman Thomas. 09 Factories, a Poem - by Alfred Kreymborg 09 God, a Drawing - by Hugo Gellert 10 Drawing - by Otto Soglow 11 Drawing - by Art Young 12 Smile. A Story - by D. H. Lawrence 12 Beauty Shop, a Drawing - by Cornelia Barns 13 Captains of Industry, a Drawing-by Boardman Robinson 13 Steel and Concrete, a Drawing-bv Louis Lozowick 15 It's a Hell of a Game - by James Martin 15 Suburban. a Poem - by Chard Powers Smith 16-17 Drawing - by William Gropper 18 On the Death of a Poet - by Leon Trotsky 18 Drawing- by William Gropper 19 The Spider's Parlor - by Arthur W. Calhoun 19 Drawing - by John Sloan 20 The New Masses I'd Like to See - by John Dos Passos 20 Let It Be Really New! - by Michael Gold 20 Two Poems - by Jim Waters 21 Drawing - by Maurice Becker 22-23 Two Drawings - by I. Klein 22 A Yell from the Gallery - by Stuart Chase 22 De-bunking the Art Theatre - by John Howard Lawson 23-25 Book Reviews by: Edwin Seaver, James Rorty, James Fuchs and Roland A. Gibson. Back Cover Luther Burbank, a Drawing - by Hugo Gellert ======================== Vol. 1 No. 3 July, 1926 ======================== 03 So This is Miami, a Drawing - by Sandy Calder 04 A Penny for Their Thoughts, a Drawing - by Boardman Robinson 05 Chapman's Hanging - by Ivan Beede 05 Histrionics, a Poem - by Lola Ridge 06 Hudson River Waterfront, a Lithograph - by Bessie Cushman 07 Supper for One, a Drawing - by Wanda Gag 08 July 4, 1926, a Drawing - by Hugo Gellert 09 The Vanishing Proletariat - by McAlister Coleman 09 The Paths of Glory, a Drawing - by I. Klein 10 Keep Your Wits About You, a Story - by Joseph Vogel 10 Waiving the Crime Wave - by Howard Brubaker 10 Drawing - by William Gropper 11 The Fifth Avenue Lady - by Esther Fradkin 11 Portrait of a Man - by Clarina Michelson 11 Five Poems - by MacKnight Black 11 Decoration - by Louis Lozowick 12 My Religious Experience - by Charles W. Wood 12 Drawing - by Sandy Calder 13 Coney Island Night, a Drawing - by Louis Lozowick 14 Drawing - by William Gropper 15 Obscenity or Heterodoxy? 16 The Under Thing, a Story - by Whit Burnett 16 17 Drawing - by Art Young 18 Two-Time Papa, a Drawing - by I. Klein 19 Strike, a Mass Recitation - by Michael Gold 20 Drawing - by Leonard Scheer 21 Drawing - by Otto Soglow 21 Abd El Krim - by John Dos Passos 22 Evening in a Lumber Town - by Meridel Le Sueur 22 The Little Jumper Dress, a Drawing - by Peggy Bacon 23 The Filing Cabinet Christ - by Lillian Symes 23 Drawing - by Rose Pastor Stokes 23 Harvest Moon, a Poem - by Leon Srabian Herald 24 Billy Craddock in Rome, a Poem - by Charles Erskine Scott Wood 24 25 Drawing - by L. Ribak 26 The Comic Strip Artist, a Drawing - by Peggy Bacon 28 The Story of the Lead Pencil - by John Herrmann 29 Of What Are the Young Films Dreaming? - by Edwin Seaver 29 24-27 Book Reviews by: Harry Freeman, Mary Ross, Robert Dunn, McAlister Coleman, James Rorty, John Dos Passos. Back Cover Drawing - by Stuart Davis ========================== Vol. 1 No. 4 August, 1926 ========================== Cover Design by Boardman Robinson 03 When Glorifying Doesn't Pay, A Drawing - by Art Young 04 The Noble Senator, A Drawing - by William Gropper 05 Call Western Union - by David Gordon 05 Wild Inharmonious Song, A Poem - by David Gordon 06 Love at First Sight, A Drawing - by Adolph Dehn 07 Emigres, A Drawing - by Adolph Dehn 08 From a Newspaper Office, Six Poems - by Eugene Jolas 09 New York, A Drawing - by William Siegel 10 The Pit and the Pendulum - by John Dos Passos 10-11 Farm Sale, A Drawing - by Wanda Gag 12 The Most High, A Drawing - by I. Klein 13 God's Picnic, A Heavenly Dialogue - by Charles E. S. Wood 13 The Poor Fish - A Woodcut - by Jane Harris 14 It's a Queer Bird, A Drawing - by Art Young 14 Snow, A Poem - by Virginia Moore 15 The Fur Workers' Strike - by Moissaye J. Olgin 15 Falling Plaster, A Drawing - by Art Young 16 Pieta - 1926, A Drawing - by Hugo Gellert 17 Body and Blood of Christ, Inc. - by Thurber Lewis 18 Two Faces - by Waldo Frank 18 Subway Track Workers, A Drawing - by David Burliuk 19 Under Brooklyn Bridge, A Drawing - by Glenn Coleman 19 The Ladies - God Bless 'Em - by Martha Foley 20 The Girl by the River, A Poem - by Michael Gold 21 Summer, A Drawing - by Maurice Becker 22 On the Rubberneck Boat, A Drawing - by Peggy Bacon 23 Picnic Day, A Story - by Margaret Latimer 24 Terminal, A Story - by Louise Townsend Nicoll 24 The Man Who Cannot Sleep, A Poem - by Beulah May 24 Vitagraph, A Poem - by Carl Rakosi 24 Master of Life, A Poem - by William Ellery Leonard 25-27 Book Reviews by: John Damon, Michael Gold, Charles W. Wood, James Rorty and Dorothea Brande ============================= Vol. 1 No. 5 September, 1926 ============================= Cover Design by Frank Walts 03 Bored Virgins, A Drawing - by William Gropper 04 Hedley's Little Sunshine Committee, A Drawing - by William Gropper 05 The Brass Knuckles Santa Claus - by Robert Dunn 05 Iss Diss a System? A Drawing - by Otto Soglow 06 Pleasure Bent, A Drawing - by Stein 07 Processional, A Drawing - by Adolph Dehn 08 High Voltage, A Drawing - by Louis Lozowick 09 Bertie, A Story - by Ivan Beede 09 Message to Siberia, A Poem - by Alexander Pushkin. Translated by Max Eastman 10 The Installment Baby, A Drawing - by I. Klein 11 Five Poems - by Kenneth Fearing 12 Shaw ill Seventy, A Drawing - by Hugo Gellert 13 Diary of the British Strike - by Raymond W. Postgate 13 In Spring, A Poem - by Whittaker Chambers 14-15 Principle, Sis Drawings - by Art Young 16-17 This Cockeyed World, A Drawing - by William Gropper 18 The Renegade Peasant - by Michael Koltsov Translated byBessie Weissman 19 Ida and Davie, A Story - by Libbian Benedict 19 Do the Churches Corrupt Youth - by Samuel Ornitz 19 Still Life, A Drawing - by Marty Lewis 20 A Wow of a Party, A Drawing - by Maurice Becker 21 Mexican Labor Poster - by Xavier Guerrero 28 A Bunkless Movie - by Edwin Seaver · • • • · • • • • 28 22-28 Book Reviews by: Harbor Allen, Powers Hapgood, John Dos Passos, Robert Dunn, James Rorty, Harry Freeman, McAlister Coleman, and Babette Deutsch =========================== Vol. 1 No. 6 October, 1926 =========================== Cover Design - by Louis Lozowick 05 "Workers of the World Unite!" A Drawing - by Xavier Guerrero 06 Albert Weisbord, A Drawing - by Hugo Gellert 07 America Needs a Critic, A Review - by Michael Gold 08 Tenement Holiday, A Drawing - by Ernest Zilliak 09 The Bathers, A Drawing - by A. Walkowitz 09 Representative Americans, A Poem - by Edmund Wilson 10 Poems from Soviet Russia - by Joseph Freeman 10 Drawing - by Wanda Gag 11 Industrial Architecture, A Drawing - by Louis Lozowick 12 Stock Exchange, A Drawing - by William Gropper 13 Bud's Wife, A Story - by Yossef Gaer 14 The Ups and Downs of Life, A Drawing - by Otto Soglow 15 The Great God Valentino - by Gene Cohn 15 Brit Homunculus, A Poem - by Jacques LeClercq 16 Mine Shops - by Ewald Sandner 16 Mission Stiffs, A Story - by Don Ryan 17 Courtyard, A Lithograph - by Ilonka Karasz 17 The Ten Commandments Retold - by Margaret S. Ernst 18 Those Terrible Americans--by Ann Wash>ngton Craton 19 Cement Plant - by James "Slim" Mortin 19 Frenzied Effort, From an Etching - by Peggy Bacon 20 Pope Green, A Drawing - by Hugo Gellert 21 Weisbord's Farewell to Passaic - by Mary Heaton Vorse 21 Going Up, A Drawing - by William Siegel 22 Redmayne - by M. H. Hedges 22 The Worshippers, A DriYioing - by Hans Stengel 23 Gus's Coffee Pot, A Drawing - by Otto Soglow 23 Jonathan Edwards, A Poem - by E. Merrill Root 24 The Czar Bums Me for a Cigarette - by Hyperion Le Bresco 25 The November Smoke Screen, A Drawing - by I. Klein 25 Three Fables - by Charles Garland 25 American Citizens, A Drawing - by Franz Hein 25 Two Portraits, A Poem - by James Rorty 26-28 Book Reviews by: James Rorty, Harbor Allen, James Fuchs, Ernest Walsh, V. F. Calverton. =========================== Vol. 2 No. 1 November, 1926 =========================== Cover Design - by Hugo Gellert 05 Nine Years, A Drawing - by William Siegel 06 Election Day, A Drawing - by Jan Matulka 07 Faster, America, Faster - by Michael Gold 08 An American Holiday, A Drawing - by Aladjalov 09 The Church, the State and the Indian - by Arnold Roller 09 Mexican Indians, Three Drawings - by Jean Charlot 10 Wanhsien Massacre, A Drawing - by William Siegel 11 The World We Live In - by Raymond Fuller 11 Help Wanted, A Drawing- by Reginald Marsh 12 The Tired Radical, Four Drawings - by William Gropper 13 The Eastern Bogey - by Anatol Lunacharsky 13 Jesse James, The Preacher's Son, A Poem - by Horace Gregory 14 Crossing the Zbruch, A Story - by I. Babiel (Translated by Max Eastman) 14 Bread and Circus - by Eugene Lyons 14 Cheated, A Drawing - by I. Klein 15 Tribute, A Drawing - by Otto Soglow 15 In Defense of Daugherty - by Howard Brubaker 15 Hell in Siberia-by Tom Barker 15 A Cowboy at Bournemouth - by Grace Poole 16-17 The Birth of a World, A Drawing by: Gellert, Gropper, Klein, Lozowick and Siegel 18 Pioneers, A Poetic Sequence - by James Rorty 19 "The Beginning of a Fine World" - by Joseph Freeman 19 Soukharov Tower - Moscow, A Drawing - by Louis Lozowick 20 Sovereign Powe' of the People, A Drawing - by I. Klein 20 Is this "Education"? - by Scott Nearing 21 Pajama Parties Lack Remorse - by Charles W. Wood 21 Drawing - by Sandy Calder 22 John L. Lewis- Scab - by Martin Conroy 22 The A. F. of L. Delegates, A Drawing - by William Gropper 23 In the Rhonda Valley - by Charles Ashleigh 23 Welsh Minus, A Drawing - by Adolph Dehn 24 A Letter from Trotsky 25 Potemkin - by Edwin Seaver 24-25 Queen Marie, Two Drawings - by Reginald Marsh 26-30 Book Reviews by: Kenneth Fearing, S. S. Adamson, James Rorty, James Fuchs, Roland A. Gibson. Back Cover - The Last Man, A Drawing - by Art Young ========================================================= [No table of contents was provided in the December issue. the one below was created by Marty Goodman, May 2017.] ========================================================= =========================== Vol. 2 No. 2 December, 1926 =========================== Cover Design - by William Gropper 03 Letters from: Jim Tully, Scott Nearing, Upton Sinclair, Max Eastman and Ezra Pound. 04 Drawing "Among the Asses" by M.A.T. 05 "Mr. God Is Not In" (A farce) by Harbor Allen 06 Drawing (no artist's name provided) 07 Drawing "The New York Box Workers' Strike" by William Gropper 08 Drawing "Lockout Victims" by M. A. T. 10 Four Poems by Langston Hughes 10 Drawing "My Harvest" by Wanda Gag 11 Drawing "The Barge Canal" by Louis Lozowick 12 "Menchevizing Walt Whitman" by Max Eastman 12 Poem "Trusty" by S Bert Cooksley 13 "The Acid Makers" by Victor Thaddeus 13 Drawing by Otto Sogolow 14 "Vox Populi" by Howard Brubaker 14 "No Profits Into It" by Scott Nearing 14 "Subway Stench" by Ivan Block 14 "Transition" by Harry Freeman 14 Drawing by William Siegel 15 "Some Southern Snapshots" by George S. Schuyler 15 Drawing by William Siegel ["The Negro worker wants more than pie in the sky"] 16 Drawing "Sacco and Vanzetti - They Must Not Die" by Hugo Gellert 17 Drawing "They Must Be Free" (unsigned Hugo Gellert) 18 Carnevali and Other Essays by Michael Gold 18 Drawing "Art Criticism" by Stuart Davis 19 Drawing by L. Ribak 20 Drawing by I. Klein 21 Aimee and the Nice Elders by Don Ryan 22 Drawing "He [Debs] Was Always Fighting" by Hugo Gellert 23 "An Open Letter" by Ernest Walsh 23 Reply to Open Letter from Walsh by Michael Gold 23 Revolt of the Teachers by Myra Page 24 Drawing "Post - Volstead Decadence" by Boardman Robinson 25 Poem "Serenade" by Emanuel Carnevali. 25-30 Book Reviews by: Charles W. Wood, John Dos Passos, V. F. Calverton, James Rorty, John Coffey, George Cronyn, Douglass P. Haskell and Charles E. Scott Wood. 30 Poem "Youth" by Naimen Adler