This is the last issue of Scrutiny. The decision to come to an end has been only narrowly evaded a number of times before. If anyone had forecast in May 1932 that the new quarterly would last for twenty years, that would have seemed very improbable. Actually it is more than twenty-one years since the first issue, though the present issue completes only the nineteenth volume. Through the 1930s Scrutiny appeared with perfect regularity. With the outbreak of the war the troubles started, and they quickly multiplied. There were difficulties about paper and difficulties at the printing works, and at one time there was a delay of months, caused by the bombing that demolished the adjoining house, narrowly missed the Round Church, and destroyed the music library at the Union. But the main difficulty was that the connection of collaborators and contributors was dispersed. Demobilization didn't solve that difficulty. The post-war world was a preoccupying and distracting one for those who came back to civilian life (and it has to be remembered that all work for Scrutiny has had to be done without payment). Readers who look through the last ten years of the review will note the appearance from time to time of new contributors. But never again was it possible to form anything like an adequate nucleus of steady collaborators.