That is the point I wished to make. It is perfectly obvious that THE LITTLE REVIEW is not the kind of newspaper of the arts I have in mind. THE LITTLE REVIEW is published only once a month. It is therefore not a newspaper, but a magazine. It is three times as good as _The Drama_, which is published only once a quarter. But my point is that we ought to have something four times as good as THE LITTLE REVIEW: in short, a weekly. It may be that THE LITTLE REVIEW has other failings than its infrequency. But why consider these lesser matters? THE LITTLE REVIEW has one virtue in addition to its eagerness. It is informal. Informality is the breath of life to journalism. Nobody can write anything the way people want him to unless he feels perfectly free to write the way he wants to. It is far more a matter of manners than a matter of truth. A journal which insists on formality almost never has any good writing in it. Good writing is nothing but the artistic expression of a personality. Scientifically speaking, it can be nothing else. Not that one must be thinking about expressing his personality in order to write well. The very point is that he must not be thinking about it. He has got to be thinking about what he has to say and nothing else. Take the use of “I” as an apparently trivial but actually significant example. If the paper for which he is writing regards the use of “I” as a breach of good form a man will find that one finger of his left hand is mysteriously drawn to the shift key and one finger of his right hand to the key between the “u” and the “o” in order to make an “I” all the time he is punching his typewriter. The least excusable riot of “I’s” I ever saw in print was in a journal of literary discussion which believes in the reality of that invention of the old-fashioned logician, “objective criticism,” and which regards the use of “I” by any but elderly gentlemen of the walnuts and wine school as impossible. I did it myself in the absence of the editor. In a paper which does not in the least object to the use of “I” writers soon forget all about it, and when they do that they begin to use it only when it is effective. It is the virtue of THE LITTLE REVIEW that it permits its contributors to use “I” as often as they please; that it permits them to make fools of themselves occasionally. This means that it is not impossible to write well for THE LITTLE REVIEW. I do not say that it is not possible to write badly for THE LITTLE REVIEW. Perfect freedom to be idiotic does not inevitably eliminate idiocy. But I have no more compliments for THE LITTLE REVIEW.