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SAINT TERESA OF AVILA has made an irresis- tible impact on those who have been seriously attracted to mysticism in the pre- sent century, when the writings of Evelyn Underhill and Dean Inge have stirred the interest of many readers outside the Roman Catholic Church. St. John was one of the humblest of men, tiny of body and most retiring of disposition ; but St. Teresa, with her genius for reading souls, saw into the truth of his greatness of spirit. Many of his poems were composed when he was imprisoned at Toledo. Later in his life he as Prior in Granada between 1582 and 1585, where he wrote prose commentaries on his poems. Mr. Campbell's translations are excellent, his rendering of the famous " En una troche oscura " masterful. St. John's simplicity must impress with its pure clarity of image our generation accustomed to- so much turgidity.
" Turn, Ringdove, and alight,
The wounded stag above The slope is now in sight Fanned by the wind and freshness of
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