There was a period in the 1920s and 1930s when John Galsworthy was almost as well known abroad as in his own country. As often happens after the death of an author, there may have been a slackening of Galsworthy's international reputation after his decease in January 1933, more especially in what came to be the state of Europe he would have so abhorred. But television, of all unlikely influences, came to his aid. From 1966 to far into 1968 his...