ABSTRACT
8 January 1921, vol. xvi, 418–20
Sir Desmond MacCarthy (1877–1952) was educated at Eton and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he became a friend of G.E. Moore, Bertrand Russell, Lytton Strachey, Leonard Woolf and others. He was a distinguished literary and drama critic. He edited ‘Life and Letters’ and contributed regularly to the ‘New Statesman’, of which he was literary editor in the 1920s.
