17 MAY 1935, Page 6

The assistant literary editor of the Morning Post, I see,

is anxious (if someone will finance him) to start a new periodical dealing solely with books and providing the public with reviewing that really is reviewing. I have some sympathy with him. He has no doubt been study- ing some of his own journal's contemporaries. So have I. I note, for example, in the Daily Telegraph a highly and no doubt deservedly appreciative review by Sir Charles Petrie, who is Foreign Editor of the English Review, of a book on England by Mr. Douglas Jerrold, who is Editor of the English Review. Why not ? you may ask. No reason, perhaps, in this case. But not only the fact but the appearance of independence in reviewing seems worth maintaining all the same.