10 SEPTEMBER 1892, Page 16

ST. PAUL AT ATHENS.

[To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—" M." is surely quite mistaken in supposing that Sf. Paul addressed an " august Court" on Mars' Hill at nigh1-. Every good critic agrees that there was not a trace of judicial procedure about the whole incident, and certainly there was no formal trial with the usages traditional in cases of murder. I do not know that any authority supposes this to be suggested by the narrative, except critics like Baur and Teller, who at the same time hold the story to be unhistorical.—I am,