The Other End

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In his day R. Ellis Roberts was a well-known literary critic and writer. He contributed reviews and articles to a number of periodicals including the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Daily News</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Observer</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Empire Review</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>London Mercury</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Bookman</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Saturday Review</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Guardian</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. He was literary editor for the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>New Statesman</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Time and Tide</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and he hosted a book review programme for BBC Radio. In 1923 his only collection of uncanny short stories </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Other End</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> was published by Cecil Palmer and received glowing reviews. The critic for the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Bookman</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> declared the author 'as well able to write stories of his own as to criticise those of others' having achieved a mastery of his subject that at times 'challenges comparison with Poe and Hawthorne'. And Gerald Gould in the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Saturday Review</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> suggested that no nervous person should read the book when 'alone at night in a remote cottage on a lonely moor'. This new edition of </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Other End</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> includes four reviews written by R. Ellis Roberts about the work of Arthur Machen of whom he was an admirer-for the </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Bookman</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Daily News</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sewanee Review</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>-and a biographical essay by Gina R. Collia 'R. Ellis Roberts: The Critic Who Read for Pleasure'.</span></p>