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发行者的话
白克孟
现在是一个充满了科学的奇迹，新的过程，理论上与实际上的新观念的时代，每一天，历史以一种急促的步子开展着。战争的威胁笼罩了全世界，一种新的普及世界的冲突，愈来愈近了，有扫除一切进步之虞。
在这样的时代当中，我们创办了《动向》[1]。发行者的目的不在于简单地给读者们多得一种杂志，而在于给他们一本种类不同的杂志：这杂志将以无所忌惮的态度，从各方面来探讨目前这个时代。我们的目的在于提供一些关于现代国际政治、艺术、文学、科学与历史的具有权威的与令人鼓舞的文章。那丰富的，成为历史的过去，将不为人所遗忘，现在的事物将被记录，至于未来——虽然我们不是预言家——则借助于我们关于过去与现在的知识，行将加以描绘。杂志的内容将由胜任的中国作家来供给，且遇有适当的时候，还要登载一些从外国文里译来的作品。
华盛顿印刷出版公司在中国文学的地平线上是一个新的名字。在它几个月的存在期间，已经有好几种书由这公司的名义出版了。本发行人希望《动向》能信守本公司“读物具有目的”的格言。
华盛顿印刷出版公司
亚历山大·白克孟
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THE LIVING AGE
Today is an age replete with scientific wonders, with new pro cesses, with new ideas both theoretical and practical. Day by day, history unfolds at a breath-taking pace. The menace of war hangs over the entire world and a new, world-wide conflict draws inexorably nearer, threatening to wipe away all progress.
Into this vibrant era we launch "The Living Age." It is the aim of the publisher to give to readers not just another magazine. Rather is it the aim to give them a new kind of magazine: a magazine which fearlessly probes the contemporary era in all its phases. It is our aim to present authoritative and stimulating articles on contemporary international politics, art, literature, science, and history. The rich, historical past will not be for-gotten, the present will be chronicled, and what lies ahead-though we are no prophets-will be charted with the aid of our knowledge of the past and present. The contents of the magazine will be presented by competent Chinese writers, and, when pertinent, translations from foreign languages will be published.
The Alexander Publishing and Printing Company is a new name on the Chinese literary horizon. In its few months of existence, several books have been published bearing the Company's imprint. The publisher hopes that "The Living Age" will live up to the motto of the Company: “Reading Material with a Purpose."
Alexander H. Buchman
Alexander Publishing and Printing Compan
[1] 本杂志英文名为Living Age，意为“活的时代”；今依华文名译为“动向”。——译者
感谢 先知在1917 录入及校对