The Sonnet (Volume 1, Number 10), edited by Mahlon Leonard Fisher, 1918

"Another excellent magazine of contemporary poetry is The Sonnet, edited and published by Mahlon Leonard Fisher, at Williamsport, Pennsylvania, of which the first number bears the date February, 1917. This appears bimonthly; and while the attempt to publish any magazine whatever displays courage, Mr. Fisher is apparently on the side of the conservatives in art. 'We have attempted no propagandism, and acknowledged no revolution,' is the sentence that forms the signature to his periodical. Furthermore, we are informed that 'the sole aim of The Sonnet is to publish poetry so well thought of by its makers that they were willing to place it within strict confines. The magazine will have nothing to say in defence of its name. It will neither attack nor respond to attacks.' It has certainly printed some good sonnets, among which are many by the editor. In 1917 appeared a beautiful little volume, limited to two hundred copies, and published by the author—Sonnets: A First Series. Fifty specimens are included, all written by Mr. Fisher. More than a few have grace and truth." - from The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century, by William Lyon Phelps, 1918