ABSTRACT
Bennett's comments may be compared with Thomas Hardy's (Introduction, pp. 10-11). Huxley and Bennett visited each other frequently in the 1920s, and Huxley expressed his indebtedness to Bennett for his advice in a glowing obituary in The Times, 31 March 1931, p. 16. But Huxley confessed in an interview that he could not emulate Bennett's method of writing (New York Times, 6 May 1933, p. 14). Also, the Letters (p. 228) reveal Huxley's disagreement with Bennett's realism in fiction. See Introduction, pp. 2, 10, and No. 54.
