18 OCTOBER 1946, Page 15

BOOKS ABROAD

Sia,—I have recently returned from a visit to Holland, a country whose scholars are largely dependent upon works in the English language. I found the shops stocked- to capacity with books from America. In Delft, one bookshop, supported with all the resources of American salesman- ship, had devoted an entire window to works of a single American pub- lisher. But in all my travels I doubt if I saw for sale more than a dozen

books from England.—Yours faithfully, R. C. EVANS. 8 Fitzwilliam Street, Cambridge.