15 SEPTEMBER 1928, Page 31

Miss D'Oyley has made a very pleasant book out of

English Letters (Arnold, 2s. 6d.) from Stuart days to the present. Professor Gordon contributes a short but interesting preface, pointing out that the more strain and elevation there is in a writer's public style, the more readily as a rule he relapses in his correspondence. Perhaps, he suggests, the best letters of to-day will never be seen.