Articles that had no conclusions, thoughts left dangling precipitously on margins, pages transposed or displaced—if this was your last issue of NATIONAL REVIEW, do not infer that the editors were celebrating the encouraging returns of our fund drive: you received one of several hundred defective copies manhandled by our printer’s machine. A postcard will earn you a more coherent copy, and our apologies.
ERRATUM (of sorts): Our esteemed friend and colleague Professor Hugh Kenner writes in to correct a misreference to him in our last issue. An entire line—we say, in our defense—was inadvertently omitted at the printers, resulting in a mad but plausible confusion in giving the biography of Mr. Kenner. But we shall take our punishment like a man, and reproduce Mr. Kenner’s letter, as follows: “March 23, 1960, Dear Sir: Reluctant though I am to interfere with the mixture of encomium and fantasy that animates your doubtless eyewitness description of me as ‘critic, philosopher, yachtsman’ (March 26), I must intervene on behalf of my alma mater when you ascribe to me an academic post at the University of Toronto. The English Department of which I am chairman is located far from native skies, at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
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