CHAPTER I HOW I CAME TO 'THE SPECTATOR; SIR THOMAS BROWNE gave his son an admirable piece of literary advice. The son in question had been travelling in Hungary and proposed to write an account of what he had seen. His father approved the project, but urged him strongly not to trouble himself about the methods of extracting iron and copper from the ores, or with a multitude of facts and statistics. These were rna tters in which there was no need to be curious. But, he added, his son must on no account forget to give a full description of the 'Roman alabaster tomb in the barber's shop at Pesth.' In writing my recollections I mean to keep always before me the alabaster tomb in the barber's shop rather than a view of life which is based on high politics, or even high literature. At first sight it may seem as if the life of an editor is not likely to contain very much of the alabaster-tomb clement. In truth, however, every life is an adventure, and if a sense of thTable of Contents...

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