Not sure where this came from or what it was. It appears to be a literary magazine but is not the literary magazine The Open Window published in London by Locke Ellis from 1910 onwards with contributions by Edward Thomas, E.M. Forster, George Bourne, Katherine Mansfield, Maxwell Armfield, Douglas Goldring, W.H. Davies, Geoffrey Whitworth, Lord Dunsany, John Drinkwater, Walter de la Mare and Vivian Locke Ellis etc., The article, of some competence, quotes among other George Borrow, Kipling, W.E. Henley and F. Marion Crawford...
On the “Joie de Vivre.”
There could hardly be a more fitting time to say something about this primitive impulse than now, when maps and guide-books are taken down from shelves; when bicycles, botanical vascular, and geological hammers are brought out from their places of concealment, and we lift up our eyes to the hills.
The true “joie de vivre” I take to be the satisfaction of an instinct for communion with Nature,
