ABSTRACT
This chapter presents the contents of a letter written from T. S. Eliot to the author, regarding an essay dealing with Rowse's book. Eliot thought that the essay would no doubt annoy Mr. Rowse, who does not always find it easy to understand why everybody does not think as he does. T. S. Eliot can imagine any man being rather hurt at having his ideas publicly attacked by anyone who was at the time in the status of being his pupil and it would hardly be good form on the pupils part. In general translations of French books do very badly unless they are very popular works, for the reason that the majority of people who were interested are usually able to read them in French furthermore, some of the leading periodicals will already have reviewed the French text. The Student Vanguard by Rayner Heppenstall, then a communist, called T. S. Eliot sign of the times.
