17 SEPTEMBER 1937, Page 21

A CHURCH BREAKFAST

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Those of us who find The Spectator the only readable weekly must regret that " A Spectator's Notebook " should be in the hands of a contributor who (a) gives publicity to the more scurrilous items from the gutter Press without due enquiry (although in the particular case quoted any intelligent Churchman would immediately conclude that the facts had been misrepresented), and (b) cannot recognise on what occasions " a full and adequate explanation " calls for a full and adequate apology from the paragraphist.—Yours &c., Gonvena House, Wadebridge, Cornwall. DAVID SHARP.