10 APRIL 1909, Page 16

ARCHDEACON CHEETHAM AND WORLD-HUMOUR. [To TUX EDITOR OF TILE "

SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—Others besides Dr. Cheetham have felt the force of the sentiment winch your correspondent Mr. Tollemache quotes from the late Archdeacon (Spectator, April 3rd). It has been tersely expressed in a saying I came across in a volume of essays, and which I have never been able to track to its source : "It takes all the wisdom of the wise to correct the folly of the Good." As a definition of humour, could anything be better than the following from Carlyle P—"True humour is sensibility in the most catholic and deepest sense: but it is the sport of sensibility : wholesome and perfect therefore: as it were, the playful teasing fondness of a mother to her child."—I am,

Sir, &c., H. G. BURDEN. Godolphin Vicarage, Helston.