16 AUGUST 1913, Page 16

BREVITY.

[To vu EDITOR Or Tn. " spEcTATorol

SIR,—The late Bishop Therold was a master of the art of brevity in letter-writing. He always, at any rate until the closing years of his life, answered letters himself, which perhaps accounted for the brevity. I have heard him say that he wrote as many as forty letters a day. It was he, I believe, who replied on a postcard to an incumbent who asked for leave of absence from his parish in order to visit Palestine,