16 NOVEMBER 1951, Page 7

The death of almost any paper (there are just one

or two exceptions to justify the "almost ") is matter for regret. In the absence of some improbable eleventh-hour rescue-scheme The Guardian will publish its final issue on the last day of this month. And now I see that The Scots Review, which for six years has been devoting itself to the promotion of Scottish culture, is closing down. There is vague talk of a possible reconstruction, but at the best it looks like resurrection rather than continuation. * *