Editorial

THIS IS my last dissertation as Editor of NEW LIBRARY WORLD, after upwards of six years in a job which I did not consciously either seek or assume. Having unexpectedly become the owner of nlw at the beginning of 1971, I rapidly found myself performing de facto the role of Editor, both by reason of the reincarnation of LW AS NLW from July 1971, and by default of the resources—of money certainly, of temperament perhaps—to pass the job on to anyone else.