SIR,-1 have just been reading three appreciations of the late
Professor Tawney. All speak of his scholarship, and of his gifts as teacher and writer; of his quality as a person; of his services in the cause of Socialism. One emphasises the moralist; another the humanist. None of the three mentions that he was the friend of Temple and Gore, that his great and best-selling book was Religion and the Rise of Capitalism, or that his moralism and his humanism were rooted in his faith—he was a regular and devout communicant.
Sir, I do not write to complain of any suppressio yeri, but only to cheer up Mrs. Knight. These in- adequate and apparently slanted presentations of the famous cut both ways. One can always try to fill in what is lacking, but is it really necessary to look for some sinister influence at work? She does worry so.
KENNETH GRIMSBY
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