6 MARCH 1920, Page 25

Les Lettres Provinciales de Blaise Pascal. Edited by H. F.

Stewart. (Manchester University Press and Longmans. 8s. 6d. net•.)--A good reprint of Pascal's famous Letters was very much needed. Dr. Stewart's new edition is all that we could desire. It is far better printed than the ordinary editions pro- curable in France, it is fully annotated, and it has an excellent introduction, with a portrait of Pascal and several facsimile pages. Dr. Stewart's brief but lucid exposition of Jansenism and Probabilism is valuable. As Mr. Stutfield's book reminds us, Pascal's destructive analysis of Jesuit doctrine is by no means ebsolete, but is as much alive as the doctrine that he confuted when Louis XIV was King. Pascal's wit and eloquence are still irresistible.