ANTHONY Powell's twelve-volume A Dance to the Music of Time has been hailed in some literary circles as an English Remembrance of Things Past. A somewhat different view is presented by Richard Jones in this issue. Mr. Jones is himself the author of four novels, including The Three Suitors and Supper with the Borgias (both published in the United States). He was born in Wales and educated there and in France. He was for many years employed by the Reuters News Agency and the BBC. Mr. Jones says that his article was provoked by the fact that "even in Britain events have moved so quickly in the past few years that a work that started in a landscape with fixed landmarks ended in a kind of superior wasteland."

G. Edward White received his doctorate in American studies from Yale and his law degree from Harvard. He served as a law clerk for the late Chief Justice Earl Warren after Mr. Warren retired. An Associate Professor at the University of Virginia Law School, Mr. White is the author of The Eastern Establishment and the Western Experience and The American Judicial Tradition, which Oxford University Press will publish this fall.

Nancy Hale has been writing novels and short stories since she lived in New York in the early 1930's. Her novels include The Prodigal Women, The Sign of Jonah, and Dear Beast. "I have recently completed a book about a black Virginia girlhood," Miss Hale writes. "Currently I am working on some short pieces to which I am committed, and expect to start work shortly on a children's book which may not turn out to be that at all.... I expect a new grandchild in May. What else do I know? Rien."