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Mr. E. E. Kellett, who was for many years a

prominent figure in Cambridge life, became known to a wider public through his book of literary essays entitled Suggestions, published several years ago. We now welcoine a new and similar volume from him, Reconsiderations (Cambridge University Press, 8s. 6d.). The subjects include Chaucer,

Milton, Thomas Fuller, Wordsworth's Ode to Duty," Swinburne, and Joseph Conrad. Several essays deal with the general principles of criticism, and there is a strikingly persuasive plea for modern translations of the Bible. Mr.

Kellett has an amazingly wide range of knowledge, but he wears his learning lightly, and while his erudition will delight the scholar, his humour and humanity will please the general reader. * * * *