The next issue of that admirable and unique quarterly The
Countryman will, almost incredibly, be a Countryman undirected by Mr. J. W. Robertson Scott. After founding The Countryman twenty years ago, putting into it not what he thought his readers wanted but what he thought every sensible reader ought to want, and making it a commercial success from the first, Robertson Scott feels that at eighty-one it is time he dropped out. Perhaps it is, though what he is going to do with the next twenty years of his life I can't imagine. His valediction in , the current issue shows that his pen is as forceful as ever. Meanwhile, Mr. John Cripps, son of Sir Stafford, who has served a long apprenticeship as assistant- editor, takes over, and the editorial office shifts five miles south from the familiar Idbury, Kingham, to the historic Sheep Street, Burford.
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