25 DECEMBER 1909, Page 23

Letters from George Eliot to Elena Stuart. Edited by Roland

Stuart. (Simpkin, Marshall, and Co. 5s. net.)—The editor of this volume explains the circumstances in which these letters came to be written. Mrs. Elms, Stuart found groat comfort in. George Eliot's writings, and expressed her gratitude by sending a present, a bookslide which she had carved with her own hands. This called forth a kindly answer. Other gifts followed, and a correspondence ensued which was continued for the remainirg years of George Eliot's life. Her letters are good to read, so full of affection and sympathy are they. We do not know that they cast any new light on the character of the writer, but they certainly make us see it more plainly.