Books and the Time Spirit
R. A. Scott-James
Today listeners are to hear about the books that have appealed personally to a lover and writer of books who has been in journalism since he joined the staff of the Daily News thirty-five years ago. He was its literary editor from 1906 to 1912, editor of the New Weekly in 1914, leader writer on the Daily Chronicle from 1919 to 1930, and leader writer and assistant editor of The Spectator from 1933 to 1935. 'Since 1934 he has been Editor of the London Mercury and Bookman. Among his publications are ' The Making of Literature' and ' Personality in Literature '.