27 SEPTEMBER 1930, Page 19

Miss Underhill, as our readers know, rarely writes even a

short article without some flash of wit, some apt analogy, some charming allusion to illuminate her scholarship. In her Mysticism, of which a twelfth edition has just been published (Methuen, 15s.), the reader will find anew these graces of style linked to a wisdom that is both worldly and other-worldly. They will also be interested in the new preface, in which Miss Underhill explains how the study of mysticism has been almost completely transformed in Europe since this volume was first published nineteen years ago. Students will find many lifetimes of mystical experience in these pages, and lovers of literature a book that may be read not only for knowledge, but for sheer enjoyment. .