17 NOVEMBER 1939, Page 6

The journalistic casualties of the war, I am afraid, are

only just beginning. It is distressing that one of the first should be the Cornhill, so admirable a survival of the Victorian days, when the taste for reading what was instruc- tive and entertaining without being either cheap or dull created a demand which made a journal like the Cornlull profitable from the commercial as well as the intellectual standpoint. I cannot believe we shall lose the Comhill per- manently. Let us talk of suspension, not demise.

Jens.