He is still a frequent subject of social discussion and critical argument. Mr. Waugh should be well content with the world.
Few novelists achieve so enviable a position.
Today his only book of non-fiction, Edmund Campion, is published for the first time in this country, although some copies of the English edition were imported eleven ears ago. Seven weeks ago another of his early novels, Black Mischief, was republished. Neither is particularly impressive as a work of literature, but perhaps they can shed some light on Evelyn Waugh as a man and as a writer. Both books were originally published soon after Mr. Waugh s conversion to the Roman Catholic faith. Black Mischief came along so soon after Mr. Waugh s admission to the Church that it is impossible to tell whether it was actually written before or after that event.