Some time ago the Times was obliged to resort to
the expedient of publishing what it calls "Points from Letters." Those extracts frequently contain valuable opinions or statements of fact which would never have seen the light if letters had always to be published in full. We think we cannot do better than follow so good an example. We gladly acknowledge that the volume of letters which reaches us brings us pleasure as well as difficulty. The recent increase in our correspondence has, in fact, been very noticeable, but we take it as a wholly favourable sign. Good letters provoke good letters ; and when articles which are meant to provoke thought and discussion do provoke those things, we certainly shall be the last to complain. Our corre- spondents, however, would help us considerably if they would remember that with a little care an argument, even an elaborate one, can nearly always be compressed.
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