Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.
An intelligent man or woman willing to make a career of reviewing fiction is hard to come by ... And the temporaries do the work cheaply. Moreover, continuity may be got at the expense of intellectual arthritis; a reviewer who has been at his grisly task for half a lifetime may stiffen into prejudices of every sort, and become too anchylosed to do better than turn his back to a new wave when it rushes down on him.
The critic's hankering to be law-giver rather than servant of literature is irrepressible.
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