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Thanks Elizabeth!  Okay, here are notes from this past Friday when I returned to Special Collections:

The Dial was actually published in connecticut, although its offices were located at 152 W 13th St. New York, NY.  View the space of the old office here: [http://goo.gl/maps/Nbiqz]

As for the issue of the Dial in which the Waste Land appeared: Vol. LXXIII No. 5 Nov 1922

Cost, $.50 per issue or $5 for a yearly subscription.

Editor: Scofield Thayer
Managing Editor: Gilbert Seldes

Notes on Contributors:

Constantin Brancusi- scultper, born in Romania, living in Paris
Robert Delaunay - born in Paris in 1887, influenced by Russeau
Elie Faure - author of The History of Art, reviewed by Thomas Craven in Feb 1922 issue of The Dial. In this issue, Faure replies to Craven's criticism.
Duncan Grant - born in Scottish highlands.
Adolph Dehn - living in Germany and Austria
Sebastien Cauiflower - American

The Dial does include ads.  They are ordered below by appearance: 

Harcourt, Brace & Company
The Century Company
Macmillan
Broom Magazine
Boni & Liveright
The New Republic
Knopf
The Atlantic Monthly Press - 7 Steel: The Diary of a Furnace Worker
Little, Brown & Company - This Freedom by ASM Hutchinson
Theatre Magazine "A History of theatre in America."
Doubleday, Page & Co.
George H Doran & Co.
Brentanos Publishers
Harper & Brothers
Houghton Mifflin
Robert M McBride & Co.
Costikyan & Co. - 12 E 40 St New York, NY. - "Antique & Modern Rugs from the Orient." "Largest Assortment in the World."

Notes about text:

"An edition of the The Land with annotations will presently be issued by Boni & Liveright" - The editors.

In the dial, the first break in the text actually comes at the end of the page

"HURRY UP PLEASE IT'S TIME" actually appears in a different font from the rest of the poem (it's not only capitalized).

There are differences in pagination as concerns the poem in the U.S and British editions.

In The Criterion, the following lines were not aligned to the right (as they were in The Dial).  Instead, they were simply indented: "if there were water," "I sat upon the shore," "A current under sea," Gentile or Jew," 
The Hot Water at 10."

9-10-12, 10:32 am


Here are my notes so far. I spent considerably more time with the Dial than the Criterion last week. :: ''The Dial'' :: Published October 1922 (November issue) in New York. Sections of poem not enumerated I, II, III, IV, V. Schnitzler, Weinstein, “Made in Germany” – German contributions, post-war, with Waste Land’s war themes, universal war not anti-Germany right now. WB Yeats’ play The Player Queen is right after the Waste Land. Schnitzler: October Graesler starts with “XII (continued)” – an installment of a novel transalted from German. Picasso drawings of naked women lounging – was this not scandal? ''Date?'' Also paintings of nude/acrobats by Duncan Grant. ''Who is he?'' Adolph Dehn. “Drinkers” during Prohibition… "Any Marriages" by Sherwood Anderson starts with Chapter IV, and goes into ch 1 or Book Two, possibly to leave suspense to look for the rest of part 2. “Paris Letter” by Ezra Pound. Lots of interesting stuff on the first page: 1. “literature is regarded in America as an advertising medium.” 2. “our brilliant contemporary Mr T.S. Eliot constantly assures us that he is about to pursue [the attempt to disentangle our national qualities]” (our = US and British). “Comment” about children’s book week. Sarcastic and hilarious! Ads: for art shows, bookshops, books, other periodicals. Ad layouts are like modern theater playbills; modern play programs are laid out much like this whole magazine with ads in the front and back and written or photgraphic content in the middle. Feels more like a magazine because of ads. The Waste Land is the very first written contribution, only preceded by one watercolor painting. Perhaps because Eliot had been living in GB for a while by now and was perhaps more like a featured contributor – not included on the “notable contributors” page. :: ''The Criterion'' :: Published October 1922 in London. No ads. Looks like a book from cover to cover. No images. The Waste Land is in the middle of the publication --Elizabeth 09/08/2012 10:53pm