COLLECTIF

First edition.
Complete fifth year, from No. 41 of January-February 1904 to No. 50 of November-December 1904. Continuous pagination.
Bradel binding in red half-cloth with corners, smooth spine decorated with fleuron and gilt fillets, gilt title.
Review illustrated with black and white illustrations, vignettes and tailpieces.
Our copy additionally contains a manuscript letter from Léon Bocquet, director of the review, dated 1904.
Spine and corners very lightly rubbed, otherwise fine copy, with fresh and pleasant interior.
Principal contributors: Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Renée Vivien, Léon Bocquet, Paul Fort, René Ghil, Gustave Kahn, Albert Mockel, Charles Morice, Léon de Rosny, Albert Samain, Emile Verhaeren, Louis Pergaud, among others.
No. 50, the only one whose cover has been preserved, is devoted to a questionnaire containing 102 responses from poets and writers to the following questions:
If, to complete the Goncourt academy and following its model, a well-funded man were to establish an independent academy of poets:
1-Who would be, in your opinion, the ten new immortals to be elected? (Women are admitted as well as French poets from Belgium.)
2-To which volume of verse published this year would you award the prize?

First edition.
Head of collection of the review, 84 issues bound in five volumes, corresponding to the years 1908 to 1912, and one supplement volume, La Vie syndicale, 1911-1913.

Half dark green sheep bindings (burgundy for the supplement volume), smooth spines ornamented with triple gilt fillets, gilt dentelles and rat-tooth roll at foot, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers and pastedowns, contemporary binding.
Handsome set, agreeably bound, free from any foxing.

Thematic issues devoted to portraits of personalities and to various social, political, economic, professional, trade union and cultural questions, concerning France as well as foreign countries. Among the subjects addressed:

• "La coopérative de consommation : Syndicat, Société, Association ?" ["The consumer cooperative: Union, Society, Association?"]
• "Histoire du Cercle d'Études féminin de Saint-Jacques, à Pau" ["History of the Women's Study Circle of Saint-Jacques, in Pau"]
• "Une caisse de prévoyance pour jeunes gens" ["A provident fund for young people"]
• "La ligue des Femmes catholiques d'Allemagne" ["The League of Catholic Women of Germany"]
• "Le repos hebdomadaire" ["The weekly rest"]
• "Mouvement social catholique et modernisme" ["Catholic social movement and modernism"]
• "L'évolution du roman social au XIXe siècle" ["The evolution of the social novel in the 19th century"]
• "Contre le chômage" ["Against unemployment"]
• "Les petits verriers italiens en France" ["The small Italian glassmakers in France"]
• "Le relèvement des salaires féminins" ["The raising of women's wages"]
• "La question des races" ["The race question"]
• "L'évolution sociale de l'Asie" ["The social evolution of Asia"]
• "L'Internationale des jeunesses socialistes" ["The International of Socialist Youth"]
• "La désertion des campagnes" ["The desertion of the countryside"]
• "Le rôle social de l'Église" ["The social role of the Church"]
• "Manuel du conférencier antialcoolique" ["Manual for the anti-alcohol lecturer"]
• "Karl Lueger, sa vie. Son œuvre" ["Karl Lueger, his life. His work"]
• "La mutualité intellectuelle" ["Intellectual mutuality"]
• "Le syndicalisme. Son origine. Son organisation. Son rôle social" ["Trade unionism. Its origin. Its organization. Its social role"]
• "Les salaires" ["Wages"]
• "Les qualités morales de la bonne ménagère" ["The moral qualities of the good housewife"]
• "Le théâtre social" ["Social theater"]
• "Le logement populaire. Idées et initiatives" ["Popular housing. Ideas and initiatives"]
• "L'hygiène" ["Hygiene"]
• "Le rôle de l'État dans l'organisation de l'enseignement professionnel" ["The role of the State in the organization of professional education"]
• "L'action sociale catholique au cabaret" ["Catholic social action in cabarets"]
• "La question sociale en Chine" ["The social question in China"]
• "Un guide général de lecture. Romans-Revue et ses annexes" ["A general reading guide. Romans-Revue and its appendices"]
• "Petites industries et petits élevages" ["Small industries and small livestock farming"]
• "Le Technicum de Fribourg" ["The Technicum of Fribourg"]
• "L'antimilitarisme socialiste" ["Socialist antimilitarism"]
• "La R.P. scolaire. Où nous en sommes en France" ["School proportional representation. Where we stand in France"]
• "Les retraites ouvrières" ["Workers' pensions"]
, etc.

Each issue furthermore offers documents, a review of reviews and a literary chronicle.