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The Selected Letters of Charles Lamb, edited with an introduction by T. S. Matthews. 291 pp. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. $4.00

Reading or rereading the letters of Lamb makes one painfully aware, not only of the utterly degenerate state into which the epistolary art has fallen since his day, but of the equally degenerate state into which the world and so many of its brave, gray-flanneled knights have fallen, too.

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The Selected Letters of Charles Lamb, edited with an introduction by T. S. Matthews. 291 pp. New York: Farrar, Straus & Cudahy. $4.00

Reading or rereading the letters of Lamb makes one painfully aware, not only of the utterly degenerate state into which the epistolary art has fallen since his day, but of the equally degenerate state into which the world and so many of its brave, gray-flanneled knights have fallen, too.