16 OCTOBER 1926, Page 16

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

Sin, Mr. Yeats-Brown's account of the liquefaction of the Blood of Januarius is the best witnessed and described miracle in modern literature. A gem of journalism. There is nothing like the liquefaction scene except the Last Act of

Parsifal. But Mr. Brown's explanation lays it to " the heat caused by the press of people." How does be account for the explicit terms forbidding any relic of the true Cross being introduced into the vicinity of the blood-phials on the attested ground that it causes immediate liquefaction ?—