ABSTRACT
It is occasionally salutary for a reviewer to read other reviews ofa book before he writes his own, ifonly for the caution it will give him about mistaking subjectivejudgments for truths. Where the book in question is difficult or involved or revolutionary in its approach, he will be astonished also to find how few critics are willing to let a writer do as he wishes, how few will judge a book on the standards it sets for itself instead of on standards the critic would impose upon it.
