15 DECEMBER 1950, Page 20

"The Second Lesson " SIR,—Your correspondent, Agnes Fry, is good enough

to say that I have made a strong case for the theory that St. John's Gospel was based, not on " Q " material, but on another lost gospel. This may have been suggested, but not by me. The contention of my small book was that the Fourth Gospel represents a different circle of tradition from that which appears in the synoptic gospels, and that the writer was not familiar