Time indeed can make some critics look very foolish and one is astonished at the self-confidence of those who do not hesitate to place authors in classes and grades as though they were high-school pupils. None of us can say of course whether a work of literature is going to be permanent or not but the fact that its author intended it to be permanents is, I think one thing that marks it off from things like journalism, advertising and even works of information. Such things are 'here today and gone tomorrow' but literature is intended to las