I AM GOING abroad for a few weeks, and in
the next issue of the Spectator these notes will be written by the enigmatic and redoubtable Picador.' This, I am happy' to say, will be a permanent arrangement,' though Strix is to reappear weekly very soon in another part of the forest.
Ever since Strix succeeded Janus nea\rly \ two years ago, it has been apparent to me (and also, I suspect, to the more sapient of my readers) that a commentary appearing in the foremost pages of what is after all a serious periodical, ought to be a serious commentary. It should be written from the centre of affairs, not from their periphery; and to entrust it to Strix was (I always felt) rather like sending Godfrey Evans in to bat at No. 4 in a Test Match. 1 shall certainly be happier going in lower down, no longer haunted by the con- viction that I ought to comment on some burning topic about which I know nothing and care less; and readers, who will get a new 'Spectator's Notebook' plus the mixture very much as before, will have every reason to welcome this sensible stroke of editorial policy.
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