Over the 34 years since it was founded by two Oxford students, an impressive range of eminent writers and theologians have spoken at the C. S. Lewis Society’s meetings. In a fragmentary talk by Elizabeth Anscombe, she reflects on her notorious demo­lition of Lewis’ argument in Miracles, an event that effectively ended his career as an apologist; in another paper, Rowan Williams gives a fine reflection on Lewis’ most problematic novel, That Hideous Strength, arguing for unexpected depths and ­qualities while honestly acknowledging its less ­appealing features. Best of all is a fascinating piece by Tom Shippey on relations between Lewis and the Oxford English faculty. His deployment of Lewis’ mordant pen-portraits of some of its then luminaries (Henry Cec