18 AUGUST 1939, Page 6

Death is said to be a great leveller, but there

seems to be no special reason why the Oxford University Press should be the same. No doubt adjustment to the idea of anything so democratic as the publication of threepenny pamphlets has driven democracy to its head. Hence the announcement that three of the pamphlets will be by A. Salter. H. Butler and G. G. A. Murray respectively—which is to diminish quite gratuitously the mere selling value of Sir Arthur Salter, Harold Butler and Dr. Gilbert Murray.

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