ABSTRACT
‘It must be confessed’, wrote Murry’s next-door neighbour, Tomlinson, ‘that it is not usual to-day to find a journalist of Murry’s reputation so lost in a re-examination of Keats – and lost for weeks and weeks – that he has completely forgotten the fact that he is the editor of a monthly review which is close to another publishing day.’ This incident had actually taken place, two months before; and it seems to have signalled the end of the ‘Adelphi’. By October 1924, at all events, it had become plain that Murry’s conception of the magazine was quite incompatible with the others’. Characteristically, Murry offered The Adelphi to Koteliansky, on terms which the latter called ‘perfectly fair’ and promptly accepted, subject to the co-operation of the rest of the group. Equally characteristically, the rest of the group demurred – it was Murry’s organ or nobody’s, they said – and the exchange fell through.
