The Tramp: An Open Air Magazine. [Complete run of 13 issues, bound in 2 vols.]

Bookseller Notes

Scarce. Douglas Goldring's short-lived pre-war periodical provided an odd mix of the rabble-rousing with the ramble-espousing - in a way that perhaps adumbrates forthcoming turbulence to the bucolic way of life. Nominally devoted to the pleasure of the outdoors - it billed itself as an 'Open Air Magazine' and roams around Europe - its legacy resides in the first publication in England of extracts from Marinetti's 'Futurist Manifesto', prefaced by his epistolary diatribe against Venice, for which 'common-sensible' English readers are prepared with the comments 'It is such fun!' and 'Is it not thrilling?', and some early work by Wyndham Lewis, including his first published poem ('Grignolles (Brittany)') and stories subsequently collected, with revisions, in 'The Wild Body' and 'Unlucky for Pringle'.Other contributors, a roll-call that indicates the journal's awkward blend of the old-guard and the avant-garde, include Ford Madox Hueffer (with whom Goldring had cut his editorial teeth at the English Review), Edward Thomas, Arthur Ransome, Arnold Bennett, Algernon Blackwood, Eden Phillpotts, F.S. Flint, et al.