End of the Saturday

Year and a half ago the proprietors of London's venerable Saturday Review (presumably backed by Lord Beaverbrook) ordered the editor to support the Beaverbrook-Rothermere plan of Free Trade within the Empire (TIME, March 3, 1930). The editor refused, quit, took practically his whole staff with him and founded The Week End Review. The Saturday Review never recovered. Last week it announced its acquisition by the virile Conservative Spectator. Founded 76 years ago by A. J. B. Beresford Hope, brother-in-law of Lord Salisbury, the Saturday Review achieved early fame for savage Toryism, shrieking the "menace" of Russia and Germany. But its true consequence was literary rather than political, particularly at the turn of the century when Frank Harris was editor and George Bernard Shaw music critic.

The "Saturday's" passing leaves three important British weeklies of comment: Spectator, Week End Review and The New Statesman and Nation (merged six months ago).

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