CONTRARY to the impression its title may create, this small
and attractive volume is a breath from The Countryman. It is a good many decades since Mr. Robertson Scott worked 'in Fleet • Street, though in his first chapter (a reprint of a Countryman leader) he has something to say of the Fleet Street of today. His second chapter reproduces his valediction on handing the journal he created over to younger hands after twenty years. It is a noble and notable statement of a high-minded editor's aims and creed. And, as reminder of the service' Mr. Robertson Scott rendered in Japan in the first World War, when that country was our ally, he adds reprints of an article and a valediction from a journal very different to The Countryman, The New East, which he started and directed in 1917 and 1918. Incidentally Mr. Robertson Scott attributes to Lord Derby the dictum that The Manchester Guardian made righteousness readable ; the credit for that belongs, surely, to Lord Cecil.
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