transition 10 was published in January 1928. This issue was edited by Eugene Jolas and Elliot Paul, with associate editor Robert Sage.

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Contents of Issue 10

Fiction:

Gertrude Stein - If He Thinks: A Novelette of Desertion - 9

Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (trans. Maria McDonald Jolas) - Confiteor - 14

Elliot Paul - States of Sea - 30

Lydia Seifoulina - The Golden Childhood - 43

Laura Riding - Fragment - 47

William Carlos Williams - Theessentialroar - 49

Malcolm Cowley - Race Between a Subway Local and the Subway Express - 51

Virgil Geddes - Uncle James’ Woman - 55

Elin Pelin - Dreamers - 58

I.M. Veissenberg - 65

Philippe Soupault - Hymn to Liberty - 69

Eugene Jolas - Flight into Geography: A Scenario - 75

Art:

Giorgio de Chirico - Painting

Tonita Pena - Painting

Tonita Pena - Painting

Sidney Hunt - Painting

Poetry:

Malcolm Cowley - The Chestnut Trees Are Dead - 89

— The Hill Above the Mine

Emily Holmes Coleman - Grave Song - 92

— Poem - 93

Eugene Jolas - Pilgrimage - 94

H.B. Armitage - Parenthesis - 97

Virgil Geddes - With the Passing of the Lesser Evil of the Two - 98

Horace Gregory - Ladies’ Exit - 99

John Hyde Preston - Portrait - 100

James Young - Encounters - 101

Kenneth Fearing - Lithographing - 102

George Dangerfield - Lyric - 103

Ivan Goll (trans. Madeleine Reid) - Ivan to Claire - 105

Claire Goll (trans. Madeleine Reid) - Claire to Ivan - 106

Pauline Leader - Ghetto Etching: Jewish Beggar Woman - 107

Yvor Winters - The Precision - 108

— A Sad Poem - 109

Bravig Imbs - Eyes of a Dead Poet - 110

— These Misted Eyes - 111

Essays, etc.:

In the Manner of — — — - The Fixer: A Story of Colonial Life - 113

Maria McDonald Jolas - Black Thoughts - 118

George Antheil - Music Tomorrow - 123

Elliot Paul and Robert Sage - Artistic Improvements of the Cinema - 127

Kay Boyle - Mr. Crane and His Grandmother - 135

Laura Riding - A Note on White Buildings by Hart Crane - 139

Elliot Paul - The Schönberg Legend - 142

William Carlos Williams - Correspondence - 145 (a response to Laura Riding’s essay on Poe in transition 7)

Extra Material:

Glossary - 147 - (supplementary notes on authors and texts included in the issue)