_For sale by all Booksellers, or sent Postpaid on receipt of Price by
the Publishers_,
The Arena Publishing Co.,
Copley Square, Boston, Mass.
In Mens Sana, in Corpore Sano.
Some wicked nurses lull crying, starving children by putting the rubber
bulb of an empty nursing bottle into their mouths. This fills the babe
with evil wind and destroys its judgment, character, digestion and
intellect. The old fashioned popular periodicals do the same thing
for inquiring and curious minds, seeking nourishment and amusement.
They give them a bottle of windy pap, called _nice, pure domestic
literature_, and the result is the same as with the poor baby--only
aggravated.
THE FLY LEAF is a robust, masculine, periodical for grown-up, common
sense young men and women. It takes the point of view of the young man
of today in literature and life. It is new, but sane. Its audacity
is integrity of opinion and not mere eccentricity. It advocates
greater freedom in American literature, and it discusses the aims and
tendencies of the new movement and new writers.
THE FLY LEAF is young, but not such a cherub that it lacks wisdom
teeth, and those who appreciate waggery are laughing over its little
ironies. It is certain the new babe can live by its wits very well in
a community which appreciates wit as keenly as does the great American
public.
THE FLY LEAF,
269 St. Botolph Street, Boston, Mass.