AN EDITORIAL WORD— 



OUR 21st BIRTHDAY. 



|N August we publish our 253rd number. The English Review 

 ■ of Reviews came of age two and a-half years ago, the 

 American Review of Reviews a year later, and the Review of 

 Reviews here attains its majority with the August number. 



IT would be a great joy to me to hear from all those who for 

 ' the last 21 years have been readers of the Review. I should 



much prize their opinion of what it has been to them, and 



what they would like to see in it in future. 



INTEND adding new features to the magazine shortly, and 

 ' would like readers to tell me what they think these should 

 be. For instance : Ought we to follow the example of the 

 "Fortnightly" and include a powerful serial novel in our pages? 

 Many people have urged this upon me, but others have as 

 strongly deprecated it. What do you think ? 



OUT I want our majority to be celebrated by a large increase 

 ** in the number of our readers. Thousands of people are, 

 I know, interested in the Review, and by taking a very little 

 trouble they can easily double our circulation. If each reader 

 would induce only one friend to become a regular purchaser 

 or subscriber it would make a great difference not only in the 

 number of copies of the Review read each month, but in the 

 special articles an increased circulation would warrant giving. 



^HE Annual Subscription to the Review is now only 6s., and, 

 ^ as the magazine goes flat through the post in a special 

 envelope, it reaches its destination uncreased and in gond 

 condition. If you cannot get a friend to subscribe, why not 

 do so for him— or her ? The Review would go forward to 

 any address you give, with your compliments, every month. 

 If neither of these things are possible you could at least tell 

 me of some friend who you think would be interested in the 

 magazine, so that I could send him a copy. 



