ABSTRACT
Among the earliest notices of Huxley's work were those in TLS, which said his first book, The Burning Wheel, revealed 'con siderable literary talent,' but advised he should give up 'grinding dark brooding thoughts into tortured expression' (5 October 1916, p. 479). Huxley found the TLS review of this first book 'pleasantly offensive,' and the one in the Morning Post quite pleasing: 'They make me out very distinguished. Don't they?' (B, I, p. 68). ES (Item 1242) attributes the present notice to Virginia Woolf (see No. 2 for a biographical note). Woolf has here been discussing Muriel Stuart's The Cockpit of Idols, which she reviews along with Huxley's book, Edith Sitwell's Clowns' Houses, and an anthology of recent poetry.
