21 OCTOBER 1905, Page 16

pro TEE EDITOR OF THE SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—I have been surprised

in reading various memorial notices of the late George Macdonald not to see any mention of his "Book of Strife ; or, Diary of an Old Soul." To not a few this little book of meditations in verse for every day in the year is the most appealing of all his writings. With some it has almost replaced it Kemple as an aid to devotional thought and aspiration; and lines from it recur to the memory on occasion as naturally and as forcibly as do verses from the Psalms. If this brief notice may draw even two or three others to know and love it, it will be a gratification to one who owes much to that volume.—I am, Sir, &c.,