POINTS FROM LETTERS
ANTHONY A WOOD.
As publishers of The Life and Times of Anthony a Wood, which was so appreciatively reviewed in your issue of November 4th, we feel obliged, in justice to Mr. Llewelyn Powys, to refer to a remark made by your reviewer in his last paragraph. He writes : " On the jacket of this new edition of the Life and Times, Mr. Llewelyn Powys is styled Editor ; one is grateful to hini for his excellent introduction, and for his attempt to popularize Anthony Wood, but lie has certainly not edited him." We would wish it to be understood that we alone are responsible for the use of the word "edited" on the jacket, which we believe to conform to contemporary usage. Mr. Powys himself raised this point, and insisted that the wording on the title page should be, as it actually stands, "abridged from Andrew Clark's edition." In view of this complete acknowledgement, and those he makes in his introduction to the scholarship and industry of Dr. Clark, we felt that the more convenient wording on the jacket might be allowed to stand. We very much regret that we should have inadvertently been the cause of a reflection on Mr. Powys, which we feel sure will now be seen to be without foundation.—WISITART AND COMPANY, 10 John Street, Adelphi, London, W.C.2.
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