John Lehmann is one of the outstanding twentieth-century men of letters in English. He came from a family of unusual talent: his sister Beatrix was a famous actress, while his sister Rosamond was a well-known novelist. He is widely known as the founding editor of New Writing, New Writing and Daylight, Penguin New Writing, Orpheus , and the London Magazine. With Leonard and Virginia Woolf's Hogarth Press and under his own name he published many masterpieces of twentieth-century literature. Through a long career he has written books of poetry, novels, and works of criticism. His three volumes of memoirs, The Whispering Gallery (1955), I Am My Brother (1960), and The Ample Proposition (1966)--collected in shortened form as In My Own Time (1969)--are among the notable literary autobiographies of the period. Although he was one of the group of young poets who emerged in England in the 1930s (a group that included...