20 SEPTEMBER 1919, Page 22

A reprint of Mrs. Gaskell's masterly Life of Charlotte Bronte

has been added to the " World's Classics " (H. Milford. 2s. net).— In his Introduction Mr. Clement Shorter quotes at length a hitherto unpublished letter in which Mrs. Gaskell described her visit to Miss Brontë and her father at Haworth in September, i853, giving some personal touches that do not appear- in the well-known account of that visit in the " life."