transition 4 was published in July 1927 and was edited by Eugene Jolas and Elliot Paul.

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Contents of Issue 4

Fiction:

Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (trans. Eugene Jolas) - Human Frontiers - 9

Ernest Sutherland Bates - The Gospel According to Judas - 23

Kathleen Cannell - Miss Bliggins - 26

Pedro Salinas (trans. Marquise d’Elbée and Eugene Jolas) - Reunion - 40

James Joyce - Continuation of a Work in Progress - 46

Vsevolod Ivanov (trans. Sofia Himmel) - The Old Timer - 66

Elliot Paul - The Open Shop - 74

Ruth Jameson - The Is No Conclusion - 78

Emilio Cecchi (trans. Samuel Putnam) - The Equine Express - 84

Virgil Geddes - The Meddler - 88

Aleksander Blok (trans. Olive Frances Murphy) - The Unknown Woman - 90

Art:

Kristian Tonny - Painting

Juan Gris - Still Life

— Painting

Marie Monnier - Birth

Poetry:

H.D. - Gift - 105

— Psyche - 107

— Three Child Songs - 109

John Hyde Preston - Reminiscence - 115

Alexander Pushkin (trans. Max Eastman) - Gabriliad - 116

Eugene Jolas - From “Nocturnes” - 132

— From “Landscapes” - 134

E. Giminez Cabellero - Malagan Song to Be Sung with an African Guitar - 137

Archibald Craig - Hearth - 140

— Return - 141

Yvor Winters - The Longe Nightes When Every Creature - 142

Rafael Alberti (trans. Marquise d’Elbée and Eugene Jolas) - From 2 to 3 - 144

— Mail - 145

Antonio Espina (trans. Marquise d’Elbée and Eugene Jolas) - Vanity - 146

R. Ellsworth Larsson - III. In the Revolving Doors: a Pneumatique to V.P., Paris - 147

— IV. Night Letter to M.D., New York - 150

Gertrude Stein - One Spaniard - 152

Essays, etc.:

Robert Sage - Melodramadness - 155

Gertrude Stein - The Life of Juan Gris: The Life and Death of Juan Gris - 160

Elliot Paul - A Master of Plastic Relations - 163

Georges Antheil - Jacques Beboist-Méchin - 166

Kenneth Fearing - Cultural Notes - 169

Murray Godwin - From Work on Sidetrack - 172

F.T. Marinetti (trans. Elliot Paul) - Futurist Standards of Measurement - 175

Extra Material:

Glossary - 179 - (supplementary notes on authors and texts included in the issue)