5 MARCH 1954, Page 14

It is clearly too late to expect a resuscitation of

Scrutiny, and the best to pe hoped for is, as has frequently been suggested, that the volumes of Scrutiny should be reprinted— cheaply. Only by thus being rendered more available can the whole corpus of the journal make its unique and exciting impact upon a new generation of students which knows it only as an established quarterly. Dr. Leavis has levelled severe criticism against the British Council. By financing such a reprint- ing that body' could perhaps make amends for former negligence, and also win the gratitude of numerous students and institutions here and abroad.

to hope that Cambridge might at last recog- nise this distinctive Cambridge voice,' and that the University Press might publish such a volume ?—Yours faithfully,

K. SCHOhEID University College of the South West of Englund, Exeter