29 MARCH 1919, Page 21

In the new Bulletin of the John Rylands Library (Manchester

University Press, 2s.) Dr. Rendel Harris prints for the first time three interesting letters from John Eliot, the New England missionary to the Indians. The letters, dated 1652 and 1654, once belonged to Mrs. Luke, who wrote the hymn beginning ' I think when I read that sweet story of old " ; they were addressed to Jonathan Harmer, the Puritan divine of Barn- staple. With the letters is an invoice of goods sent on the ' Mayflower' of Boston, Thomas Webber master, in 1653. The famous ship that carried the Pilgrim Fathers across the Atlantic in 1620 is well known to have continued in the New England trade, but we do not remember any reference to her of later date than 1630, when she took another party of emigrants.