This volume draws together Keynes s published and unpublished writings on non-economic subjects. Included in full are both sides of his correspondence as chairman of The New Statesman with Kingsley Martin the paper s editor covering politics and foreign affairs during the years 1931 to 1946. The reader will also find manuscripts on ancient currencies a subject that occupied much of his time during the 1920s his articles and reviews on the arts and literature and the preface written jointly with Piero Sraffia to the 1938 facsimile edition of the Abstract of Hume s Treatise on Human Nature.