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was following up this success with a new quarterly review, Two
Worlds. With his customary brass, he claimed that it would be
edited by Ezra Pound, Arthur Symons, and Ford Madox Ford. He
also promised that it would feature more contributions from James
Joyce. Roth had actually written to Joyce in 1921, proposing such
a magazine, but Joyce had refused to answer the letter. Pound
was not at all disturbed by the unauthorized use of his name in the
prospectus for the magazine (it did not appear on the masthead
when the first issue came out), and Symons actually did write
for it.
Roth boasted to Hemingway that he had only used Joyce's name
for a "draw", and that he had gotten ten thousand subscriptions on
the strength of it. Now that he had his subscribers, he didn't want
Joyce, he wanted more amusing stuff. Nevertheless, he continued
to print, without authorization, Joyce's writings. Joyce tried to get
Quinn's successor to represent him in litigation with Roth, using
Pound's father as intermediary, but he was informed that since he
had neglected to copyright the book in the United States, he had
no grounds for action.
In a letter to Miss Harriet Weaver, May 31, 1927, Joyce notes
that "Mr. Roth has made public a letter in which he states on the
authority of Dr. Joseph Collins that I am really a Jew. Mr. Roth
is up for preliminary examination today 31 floreal in New York
City." 11
On December 2, 1928, he wrote to Miss Harriet Weaver, "I had
a cable from New York to say that the solicitors were arraigning
the case and that Roth was again in jail but that he is execution
proof." 12
Despite the fact that his eyes were often adversely affected, and
that he suffered terrible headaches afterward, Joyce often spent
his evening in drinking considerable quantities of wine. During the
years that he and Pound were in Paris together, from 1920 through
1924, they were not too often in each other's company, for Pound
was not much of a drinker. A more congenial companion for Joyce
was the hard-drinking Robert McAlmon.
After Pound had removed to Rapallo in 1924, Joyce sent him
the manuscript of Work in Progress, which he was constantly revis-