11 MAY 1951, Page 5

The fact that last week I said that Charles Wesley

died in 1688 (which would have been surprising, since it was a good many years before he was born) has not gone entirely unnoticed. How this singular statement emanated from my pen is a mystery whose solution evades mc. In the belief that readers may be mOre capable of finding an explanation of my aberrations than I am myself. I have obtained permission to set a competitior4 on the subject on a later page.