12 MARCH 1948, Page 18

SUSSEX

. - SIR,—I am fortunate enough to have a copy of The SpectatOr sent to me every week, and since " absence makes the heart grow fonder," I am careful to read it from cover to cover. I reaped a very thandsome reward this week when I came across a sentence in the teview of Sussex -by Reginald Tumor: " Sussex has a pattern of its own, with its downs behind the sea, and the weald behind the downs, its four rivers mining north to south through the gaps in the hills, the Roman Stane Street driving north from Chichester to the Surrey border." 4m myself a Sussex man, and have a very sincere love of my country ; bt# in many. books that I. have read on. Sussex I have never found such a beautiful description as this—beautiful because of its economy. It is wosthy of the