" GREAT BOOK-MAKERS "
Sta,—The delightful article by Mr. Wilson Harris in your number of November 13th calls for a footnote, for any review of Messrs. Macmillan's achievements during one hundred years ought to include mention of their Eversley Series. It is indeed doubtful whether any other publishing house can show a more distinguished selection than this. These plum- coloured and handy volumes, admirably printed and produced, must have found their honoured place on library shelves all over the world. There are the works of Matthew Arnold and J. R. Green, of Huxley and John Morley, as well as of Lamb, Emerson and, of course, Kingsley. There is an eight-volume edition of the Bible and a ten-volume Shakespeare. Edmund Gosse supplies an edition of the prose and verse of Gray. There are five volumes of the Letters of Edward Fitzgerald, surely one of the greatest of letter-writers. There is Milton in four volumes, Keats' letters edited by Colvin, and the Life and Miscellaneous Writings of Dean Church as well as Essays by F. W. H. Myers, J. G. Fraser, Frederic Harrison and Bishop Lightfoot. One should not omit to mention the Collected Essays of R. H. Hutton, one of the most dis- tinguished editors of The Spectator, who occupied in his day, with so much distinction, the chair which in our own time Mr. Wilson Harris has filled for so long to the admiration of all your readers.—I am, Sir,
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