Now almost impossible to find 79-page single issue of the Chicago literary fortnightly Dial for 30 November 1916 is in very good condition. There is a a single blind stamp to the front wrapper of this Great War issue, dated just a few months before America entered the catastrophic fray.
See photo #3 for complete contents.
Highlights I find here include:
More than 40 pages of great book ads. See photo #1 for an example. This photo reproduces what I believe to be the frontispiece to the now very rare first edition of William Griffith's Loves and Losses of Pierrot.
Soldier and poet Richard Aldington opens this issue with an article sent along to the Dial from his Great War training camp outlining his current inspiration, Eugene Demolder's volume called La Route d' Emeraude.
Barrett Wendell on "England in Shakespeare's Time." This on the C.T. Onions-edited two-volume Shakespeare's England.
Van Wyck Brooks offers "Ireland," in that most fateful year, "1916." This in review of five new works on the troubles of the day, including James Stephens' The Insurrection in Dublin and others by Padraic Colum, Thomas MacDonagh, etc.
Dial editor George Bernard Donlin pens a longer review of Julian West's G.K. Chesterton: A Critical Study.
Grant Showerman on "Sixty Years of the American Stage."
Chicago's own, the talented Henry B. Fuller pens a longer essay on the life and work of Richard Watson Gilder.
Harold J. Laski on Heinrich von Treitschke's "Primer of German Conquest."
Homer E. Woodbridge on a "Group of Recent Irish Plays" including three plays by Padraic Colum, others by Seumas O'Brien, etc.
See photo #3 for more content.