Volume 10, Number 2 · February 1, 1968
The Survivor
By Noel Annan
Downhill All The Way
by Leonard Woolf
Harcourt, Brace & World, 254 pp., $5.95
The survivors of the original Bloomsbury group are by any reckoning old. E. M. Forster was eighty-nine on New Year's Day, Leonard Woolf is eighty-seven, Duncan Grant a mere stripling of eighty-two. Meanwhile the documentation continues. Wilfred Stone's work on Forster contained a good deal of new material; Quentin Bell is writing a biography of his aunt Virginia Woolf; and Michael Holroyd's life of Lytton Strachey, due shortly to appear here, sorts out the highly complicated relationships, homo- and heterosexual, in the group in which, so it used to be said, all couples were triangles and lived in squares. Before the field is completely taken over, as inevitably it must be, by learned interpretations of the letters, diaries, and works of the dead, it is worth listening to the last remaining voice of Bloomsbury that is still willing to tell us at first hand what he thought it was all about.
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