?This skillful selection from Middleton Murry's writings leaves no doubt that he was one of the handful of responsible critics of the last fifty years.... Murry's criticism is generous and welcoming, much of it an exposition of the best that can be found in a writer without regard to the moment's fashions. In fact, once convinced that a writer has something congenial to say he is prone to lose discrimination in the course of his enthusiastic exposition.?-Spectator