5 JUNE 1947, Page 5

Good selectivity is, I believe, a supreme virtue in a

wireless set.

It has its virtues equally in the publisher's advertisement. A week or two ago a Spectator reviewer summed up a discriminatingly appre-

ciative review of Mr. Kingsley Martin's recent book on the Press with the passage :

"Everybody ought to read this book. Its narration is fascinating and its manner exciting. In itself it is a first-rate opening to a public discussion. And the conclusion of that discussion, it is to be hoped, would be a rejection of all that Mr. Martin proposes."

I observe that the publisher in advertising the book quotes as The Spectator's opinion of it the first three sentences of the passage in question—unaccountably overlooking the fourth. Strange how these things happen.