THE BLUE REVIEW

The Blue Review rose out of the ashes of the bankrupt magazine Rhythm. The cover was very similar in style, but the wonderful black and white prints and woodblocks that had made Rhythm so popular, were missing. Katherine Mansfield and John Middleton Murry managed to find a new publisher, but couldn’t make enough from advertising or sales to keep the Review going. It lasted for only 3 issues.

May 1913
First Issue of The Blue Review, contained stories, poetry and reviews by Gilbert Cannan, Katherine Mansfield, Hugh Walpole, D.H. Lawrence, W.H. Davies, Walter de la Mare, and artwork by Max Beerbohm.

June 1913
Second Issue, as above plus Frank Swinnerton, Edward Marsh, J.D. Beresford and James Elroy Flecker. There’s a frontispiece by Stanley Spencer and drawings by Frances Jennings, J.D. Innes, and G.S. Lightfoot.

July 1913 The Third Issue also included work by Rupert Brooke and Yone Noguchi, plus a single cartoon by X Marcel Boulestin.