The Modernist Journals Project
for students and scholars of modernism

This is an example of the ephemeral bibelots catalogued by F. W. Faxon in 1903. It was printed on wallpaper cut in the shape of butterfly wings, ran for just one issue, and was probably the work of one man, the printer. We know of two copies of this journal, both in the Princeton University Library, and they are not identical, having two different pages and a different order. The pages are not numbered in any case. The short pieces of prose and verse in the journal are mostly presented as having been rejected by other magazines that are better known, and they are usually assigned to fictitious female authors. For students of modernism this journal is important as a precursor of the more ambitious little magazines, offering hints of Dada and Surrealism before these modes of modernism actually developed.
| Portraits de nos Contemporains | |
| Note from the Editor | Marrion, James 2nd |
| So time went out | |
| Spring | Lamb, Lulu |
| Abstosophy | |
| What Smith Tried to Believe | Ford, Nellie Hetherington |
| Portrait du Rédacteur-en-chef | Marrion, Jas 2nd |
| The Naughty Archer | Rainbird, Alisse |
| Our Clubbing List | Bliss, Anne Southampton |
| The Sonnet of Sour Mucilage | Y., Myra |
| The Ghost of a Flea |
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