Cyril N. Batham

Besproken in AQC, jrg.96 ( 1983 ), 1984, pp.225, 226 :
“The first volume of The Collected Prestonian Lectures published in 1965, was edited on behalf of Quatuor Coronati Lodge by the late Bro.Harry Carr. As its reviewer, Bro.A.R.Hewitt, then said, ‘Never before have writings of so many great names in masonic research been brought together between the covers of one book’. It was such a success that a revised impression was published within two years. A similar comment can truthfully be passed about this second volume because in all respects except the number of lectures included – fourteen as against twenty-seven in the first volume – it is as valuable a contribution to any collection of masonic writings as its predecessor…Again, the subjects of the lectures are of considerable diversity – the biographical, the legendary, the historical, the architectural, the ceremonial, the mystical, the dramatic – sufficient to captivate a diversity of minds.”
Vol.III besproken in AQC, jrg.101 ( 1988 ), 1989, p.249 :
“The Lectures are important inasmuch as they are the only ones held under the authority of the United Grand Lodge of England. All three volumes should, therefore, be on the bookshelves of every thinking freemason, but this volume is of particular importance if only for the 1982 Lecture ‘The Government of the Craft’ by R.W.Bro.Sir James Stubbs, K.C.V.D.,P.S.G.W. …”… (mais)