ABSTRACT
Times have changed since the author edited the literary supplement of the English Review in 1935. Ten years ago people assumed that a literary supplement was a literary supplement—that is, a collection of reviews, written by individuals each with his own standpoint. Nowadays, if he may generalize from his experience since the spring of this year, a large number of persons approach a literary supplement with the assumption that it is a co-ordinated series of reviews planned to reinforce such political opinions as are expressed in the main body of the paper. Twenty years before The Poisoned Crown the author expressed a similar thought in The Dawn’s Delay, through a character who defines history as the record of the convulsions caused by the grown man’s efforts to find in company with others what he has failed to find alone as child and boy and youth.
