De Nieuwe Gids

De Nieuwe Gids (meaning The New Guide in English) was a Dutch illustrated literary periodical which was published from 1885[1][2] to 1943.

Two of the founding editors and frequent contributors to The New Guide were the poet and critic Willem Kloos, and the poet, novelist, playwright, essayist, and psychiatrist Frederik van Eeden,[3] both of whom are widely regarded today as canonical greats of Dutch literature.

The other three founding editors of The New Guide were F. van der Goes, Willem Paap, and Albert Verwey.

Within a few years of its founding, its editors had one falling out after another, until the only editor left by 1893 was Kloos, who himself was rapidly deteriorating into mental illness and alcoholism, and who converted De Nieuwe Gids into little more than a personal journal for cataloguing his many betrayals and sufferings.

It was purchased in 1938 by Alfred Haighton who again changed focus, making the magazine a platform for pro-Nazi Germany material.