E. M. Forster
Professor of English at Oxford University, LORD DAVID CECIL is a scholar, critic, and biographer of exceptional quality. His study of Couper, The Stricken Deer (1929), his volume on Dorothy Osborne and Thomas Gray. Two Quiet Lives (1948), and his charming and penetrating biography of the young Melbourne (1929) have won him many readers on both sides of the Atlantic. It is pleasant to know that he has resumed his study of Lord Melbourne’s career. The paper which follows is drawn from his new collection of essays, Poets and Story-Tellers.