32 pp. A sticker shadow, some discoloration near edge of wraps, a few light pencil marks in text, else fine. Being the Andrew Lang Lecture delivered before the University of St. Andrews, 11 May 1950. ''Yet we may consider that, though journalism may kill a man, it quickens his life while it lasts--of all men in educated callings, unless he has a college fellowship to rest upon, he is least able to let himself degenerate into the too well-known type described by La Fontaine: 'Il se leve un matin sans savoir pourquoi faire. / Il se promene, il va, i dessein, sans sujet. / Il se couche le soir sans savoir d'ordinaire / Ce que dans le jour il a fait.' ''