24 JUNE 1943, Page 20

Shorter Notices

Cambridge. Lectures. By Sir Arthur.9atiller..Couch. (Dent.

FEW volumes.in _Everyman's.Library (or out of it) are more richly stored with both wit and wisdom than this latest addition to that notable series. Q's various. collections of essays, The Art of Reading, The Art of Writing, Studies in Literature, have long been familiar, though less widely known than they should be. Here, in the con- venient and attractive Everyman, is a selection of the best—in Q's own sound judgement, for he himself is the selector—in those _earlier volumes. The result is a book entertaining, -astringent, in- structive—as sound an investment as can be -found in the market for anyone who ever. reads books at all.