MRS. GASKELL'S NOVELS.
(To TUE gorroa Or Tali "SrserAToa."] SIR,—The reviewer of "The Works of Mrs. Gaskell" u tho Spectator of September 29th seems to be in error when be says • " It is curious to reflect how difficult it has been hitherto to read Mrs. Gaskell's works as a whole." Messrs. Smith and Elder, who are now publishing the "Knutsford Edition," brought out a "Pocket Edition" of Mrs. Gaskell's works, also in eight volumes, in 1889-90, at eighteenpence each. They are bandy, pleasant little books, though not to be compared with the " Cranford " published by Messrs. Macmillan in 1903, with a preface by Mrs. Ritchie, and with marvellously sytn, pathetic illustrations by Hugh Thomson. I may also remind you that at least "Cranford," "Mary Barton," "North and South," and " Sylvia's Lovers" have been published for six- pence each.:--I am, Sir, &c., A. P. DAWSON. Harston Rectory, Grantham.
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