This selection of Vincent Van Gogh's letters, sensitively compiled by poet W.H. Auden, reveals intimately and eloquently his life as a painter. Also included are descriptions of van Gogh by acquaintances and a summary of the artist's life by his nephew and in a picture I want to say something comforthing. I want to point men and women with that something of the eternal which the and which we seek to convey by the actual radiance and vibration of our coloring.