In 1918 editor William Stanley Braithwaite writing for the Anthology of Magazine Verse stated that the magazine was "the best edited and most influential periodical published." he went on to say that it was widely read in the east. It was almost the first magazine to publish the work of American writer Arthur Upson. American poet Amelia Josephine Burr made her "first considerable poetic appearance" in the pages of The Bellman.[2]
In 1919 Minnesota based Western Magazine reported on the suspension of The Bellman. They stated that The Bellman had been, "the best product, along literary lines".[3] In 1920 a book was published called The Bellman Book of Verse, the book included the best poems which had been published in the magazine.[4][5]