SOURCE: “Since the War.” New Statesman and Nation 4, no. 90 (12 November 1932): 599-600.

In the following review, the critic finds Just the Other Day to be well written and conceived but overly didactic in its social commentary.

There is a peculiarly revolting passage in the adventures of Gulliver in Brobdingnag where Swift describes the impression conveyed to his hero by a sojourn in the private apartments of some ladies of the court. Magnified out of all friendly perspective these ladies, engaged on their toilets, are revealed as loathsome, hideous monsters. Allowing for twentieth century restraint, Gulliver's point of view on this occasion is that adopted by Messrs. John Collier and Iain Lang in their “informal history of Britain since the war.” To them history, informal, is on the whole the lengthened shadow of a moron. As a compilation their book is admirably complete. Each flying folly of the past twelve...