We offer our congratulations to our friendly rival the Saturday
Review which this week celebrates its seventieth anniversary. The Saturday Review is pub- lishing messages from the Prime Minister, Lord Balfour, Mr. Thomas Hardy and many other celebrated men. The Saturday Review has a notable record. It was admired as much as it was feared when the late Lord Salisbury, then Lord Robert Cecil, was regularly writing political articles for it and when its book reviews aimed at elevating the public taste by castigating pretentious or inefficient authors in a manner that is unknown in our milder day. We are glad to think that that well- known man of letters, Mr. Walter Herries Pollock, who edited it from 1883-1894, is still living. We think of the days when we used to turn week by week with delight- ful anticipation to the Saturday Review for dramatic criticisms by Mr. Bernard Shaw and later by Mr. Max Beerbohm. We hope that the Saturday Review has before it many more "allotted spans," and we can wish for it no better achievement than to be worthy of its past.
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