depending only on him. He took various jobs, and in the second of these two years he had a temporary lecturing post at University College. At last, in May 1925, he was chosen as tutor in English at Magdalen College.1 Lewis now entered the middle period of his life, which was the longest and, in a sense, most stable period. He kept the same job until 1954. In 1930 he, his brother, Mrs Moore and Maureen moved into their own home, The Kilns, which was to be Lewis’s home for the rest of