Bohemia : the all-Australian literary magazine

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Nf 059.45 BOH
Created/Published
Melbourne : Bohemia, 1939-1967
Issue
Eleventh Issue (February 1940)
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Bohemia  

The Syndication Menace Page 10.  

Registered at the G.P.0., Melbourne, for  

transmission through the Post as Periodical.  

 

Mateship  

Art  

Letters  

THE ALL-AUSTRALIAN LITERARY MAGAZINE  

ELEVENTH ISSUE.  

MELBOURNE.  

FEBRUARY, 1940.  

Bohemia  

IS PUBLISHED MONTHLY.  

Subscription 3/- per annum,  

plus 1/- postage.  

NEWSAGENTS and CLUBS please note:  

DISTRIBUTING AGENTS: Messrs. George  

Batchelor Pty. Ltd., McKillop St., Mel-  

bourne, to whom all applications for par-  

cels must be addressed.  

LITERARY CONTRIBUTORS: Please ad-  

dress your contributions to The Editor,  

“Bohemia,” J. Roy Stevens, 1-7 Knox  

Place, Melbourne. Literary and Art Fel-  

lowships’ reports must be in at least  

days before date of publication, which  

will be on the first of each month.  

Other communications should be ad-  

dressed to —  

THE MANAGER, Osborne House, 399  

Little Collins Street, Melbourne.  

The Bread and Cheese Club does not  

identify itself with the views of any writer  

expressed in these pages. As Literary Club,  

it has no political opinions nor ecclesiastical  

leanings.  

IN THIS ISSUE  

BOHEMIANS OF YESTERYEAR  

Mr. GROUCH; P. T. FINLAY—Verse  

VICTOR KENNEDY On Elliott  

Perryman  

STANLEY BROGDEN On New  

Zealand Writers; Max Harris—Verse  

EDITORIAL; Norma L. Davis—Verse  

J. R. P.—Genius and Marriage  

J. McKELLAR—On Brent of Bin Bin;  

Joan Rampling—Verse  

ROSS MORAY Sketch; MARTIN  

HALEY—Verse  

THE SYNDICATION MENACE; LOUIS  

LAVATER—BIank Verse 10  

PERSONAL PARAGRAPHS 11  

JACK SORENSEN—Verse 12  

URSULA CLINTON—Verse 13  

LAWSON COMMEMORATION RE-  

PORT; CON LINDSAY and G.  

HADDON MORRISON—Verse .. .. 15  

Let My People Go!  

(A Reply to Mr. Grouch from E. J. Brady)  

COMMENTING in his refreshingly  

caustic manner on the Federal  

Literary Fund, Mr. Grouch in January  

issue of “Bohemia,” naively enquires:  

“What chance would man like E.  

J. Brady or Randolph Bedford have  

at the present juncture?”  

My fighting friend Randolph is well  

acquainted with politics from the Par-  

liamentary inside and is able to reply  

for himself. If he approaches the  

subject feel sure that he will be  

eloquent.  

For my part answer Mr. Grouch’s  

enquiry with simple phrase ‘abso-  

lutely none.’ have proved it.  

have proved it so conclusively that  

hope to relieve the country, in which  

had the misfortune to be born, of  

my extraneous presence. am not  

yet too old to work passage out  

of it in tramp steamer if there is  

no other way.  

This statement coming from the au-  

thor of “Australia Unlimited” may  

seem strange.  

When the facts of the matter are re-  

leased they will be understandable to  

foreigners at least.  

The position of Australian writers  

and artists has recently been sympa-  

thetically stated at Canberra by Sena-  

tor Don Cameron. It is even more  

hopeless than he knows. After fifty  

years of effort one is reluctantly com-  

pelled to accept the chilly facts:—  

Forces alligned to prevent the develop-  

ment of an Australian sentiment, and  

its corresponding culture, are too pow-  

erful to be overcome by isolated groups  

of intellectuals. Starvation is weap-  

on against which neither their strength  

nor their courage can ultimately pre-  

vail. To urge them, as have done  

in the past, to remain here and fight  

it out for the sake of the land we  

love is unfair.  

When book of highest literary  

value, such as Christina Stead’s “Salz-  

burg Tales,” fortunately for its  

authoress, fails to find publisher  

in Australia the outlook for publication  

in this country is black indeed.  

Luckily for European literature  

was able to save Katherine Mansfield  

from despair; but was not able to  

save the Australian magazine  

through which introduced her to the  

international world of letters from  

failure.  

In bygone years aroused Henry  

Lawson’s resentment by venturing to  

disagree with him when he publicly  

asserted that “the only thing an Aus-  

tralian writer could do was to shoot  

himself carefully with the aid of  

mirror.” Lawson’s youthful tempera-  

ment was less sanguine than mine.  

His opinion has proved itself to be  

based on realities; whereas mine was  

based on patriotic hopes.  

However, an eleventh-hour awaken-  

ing is better than continued trance.  

feel it is my duty now not to  

encourage those with cultural aspira-  

tions to expect an improvement in local  

conditions, not to urge them to re-  

main in Australia. Out of my own  

illuminative experience will rather  

advise them to seek elsewhere for the  

recognition and reward to which their  

genius is entitled.  

Sahara, in which the oases are oc-  

cupied by literary eunuchs in academic  

uniforms, offers no field for original  

expression. The devotees of culture  

are doomed to perish of weariness,  

hunger and thirst. Small consola-  

tion to them if futurity decides to  

(Continued on Pa.ge 12)  

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