17 APRIL 1947, Page 17

CRITICISM AND FAITH

SIR,—With all respect, I cannot feel that the correspondence columns of The Speciator are an appropriate place in which to discuss in detail the composition and recruitment of the Divinity Faculty in Cambridge. I have already touched upon that subject publicly in another place, when Professor Raven himself was present: nor am I conscious of having said anything more than what many of us, both in Cambridge and out of it, have been saying for the past ten years or more. Still less have I any desire to compete with my friend, Dr. Raven, in an exchange of personal innuendo and imputation of motive. I suspect that our minds must be working on rather different lines in reference to this question.—Yours faithfully, 20 Dean's Yard, Westminster, S.W. z CHARLES SMYTH.