[17] The editor was Curtis J. Kirch ("Guido Bruno") and the weekly had
a brief career in Chicago. It was the forerunner of the many Bruno
weeklies and monthlies, later published from other cities.
Will I tell you what I think of your magazine? Sure I will.
It has thirty-six pages of reading matter.
Seventeen are given to the biography of a musician,--German, dead.
Four to the mother of a theologian,--German, peasant-wench, dead.
(The mag. is published in America, to-day.)
Five pages about Eugene Field's ancestors. All dead.
17 + 4 + 5 = 26.
36 - 26 = 10.
Two pages about Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
Three-fourths page about a bad poet and his indifference to--German.
Two pages of his poetry.
2 + 3/4 + 2 = 4-3/4.