12 DECEMBER 1914, Page 27

The accomplished editress of the late Professor Dowden's setters to

Miss West used the blue pencil too freely for the taste of his friends. She has now produced a second series of these Fragments from Old Letters (J. M. Dent and Sons, 4s. 6d. net), in which the omitted passages are published. 'They deal less with topics of literature, and give more biographical touches and light gossip. An index to the two series is added, and the complete work forms a pleasant enernorial of a distinguished critic.