ABSTRACT
I feel it is particularly appropriate to write about E.M.Forster in a book of essays devoted to the memory of John Clive. There were some similarities of interests between Clive and Forster. The founders of the Clapham Sect, from whom Forster was descended, and the figures in Clive’s first book, Scotch Reviewers (1957), although separated geographically, occupied to a degree the same world. Macaulay, Clive’s great subject, and like Forster descended from Clapham, was hardly the sort of Cambridge man beloved by Forster, but he and Clive both had an affection for Cambridge. Both had a life-long love for music, and one might also hazard a guess that Australia played a role in Clive’s life somewhat similar to the role of India in Forster’s.
