Letters

ISBN: 9781330036587 出版年：2016 页码：285 Benjamin Jowett Forgotten Books

The present volume is merely a supplement to the Life and Letters of Jowett, published two years ago. It contains a number of letters, partly on special subjects, and partly of more general interest, which could not be included in the previous volumes, and yet seemed to be worth preserving; and also some documents of a more public nature, which throw light on important features of J owett's career. The letters have been divided into sections, according to the subjects treated in them, an arrangement which has the advantage of bringing together what J owett thought or suggested about Church Reform, Education, but the disadvantage of separating the letters addressed to one person. This separation is to be regretted, for nothing was more characteristic of J owett than his devotion to his friends. If all the letters to Morier, for instance, were collected together, they would form the record of a watchful, unwearying friendship, outspoken yet sympathetic, to which it would be difficult to find a parallel. Such an arrangement was, however, incom patible with the plan of the work, and could not be introduced into this volume.