1 MAY 1926, Page 16

ST. BERNARD [To the Editor of the SPECTXPOR.] Sni, — In the

interesting critique of The Marvellous History of St. Bernard, the writer says " in his St. Bernard we discern nothing of the great statesman who was to influence the Counsels- of all Europe—nothing eithei of the contem- plative type who, in the Paradiso, utters that famous piayer to the Virgin." Is there not here a momentary confusion between St. Bernard of Menthon, and his greater namesake, more than a century later, St. Bernard of Clairvaux ?—I am,