The Realist - A Monthly Journal - 5 issues from September 1929 - January 1930

Five copies of the short-lived monthly British magazine, first published in April 1929, the final issue appearing in January 1930, a victim of the Great Depression. Founded by the political scientist George Catlin and Major Archibald Church (editor), the literary editor was the philosopher Gerald Heard. It was an intellectual magazine dedicated to Scientific Humanism, and notable contributors included Arnold Bennett, H. G. Wells, Sir Richard Gregory, J. B. S. Haldane, Bronislaw Malinowski, Herbert Read, Julian Huxley, Aldous Huxley, Sir Frank Baines, H. J. Laski, Havelock Ellis and Rebecca West.Topics coverd look remarkably modern: The Water Supply of England by JH Coote. Money and the Relie.