Every journal has its own character. This is a reflection of the editor's interests and concerns, his conception of what the journal is there to do. He selects out of all the papers offered by contributors those which by subject-matter fit the journal's points of view. A journal may be called Clinical Psychiatry and will then obviously not publish papers on the chemistry of helium or the early poetry of T. S. Eliot, but what about human brain physiology or animal psychology? Observations on homosexuality in dogs, perhaps, but not experimental alcoholism in rats? Behavioural problems in people with diabetes, treatment of the epilepsies, fear of flying, depiction of suicide in opera? Where will the editor be tempted to extend the boundary of acceptance?