EM Forster is the lodestone of Persephone Books: his novels and his values, his moral stance and his novelist's vision, are a huge and enduring influence. It is 123 years since he came up to King's College, Cambridge in early October 1897 and on the Post this week we celebrate – Forster and King's. Here is a picture of him some time in his third year ie. in 1899-1900 (probably May 1900).