BD. Edmund Blunden

17. [Blunden]. Review of Social Currents in Japan, by Harry Wildes. TLS, 15 December 1927, p. 967.

For many years Blunden was on the editorial staff of TLS, and became the most frequent reviewer of books about Japan for that publication. His reviews are unsigned, but this and others noted here are attributed to him by Kirkpatrick (187). Miner (179b) writes of Blunden’s dozens of book reviews that they are ‘serious, discerning, and well written studies, not insipid or unknowing praise’. In this brief review Blunden praises Wildes’s work about the incitements against the West in the Japanese press, and hopes that ‘the young generation from the universities, with their passion for great literature and imaginative expression, can find their way into the journalistic world and purify its spirit’. For other TLS reviews by Blunden see 22, 24, 29, 47, 52, 53, 56, 57, 63, 73, 75, 78, 81, 85, 89-91, 96-98, 100-04, 107, 108, 121, 126, 127, 145, 147, 149, 150, 152, 153, and 161.