20 JULY 1951, Page 18

Christopher Fry

Sitt.—The dropping of a word by your printer in my review of Chris- topher Fry's A Sleep of. Prisoners must,, foil the theologically-minded, have made nonsense of my summary of Mr. Fry's religious attitude. The word missing is- " personal," and the sentence affected should, of course, read: " Speech after speech is heavily loaded with precise, if often unusual, thought which all adds up to a profoundly personal religious statement "—a belief, as Mr. Stanford points out, that " there is a view of the world according to which the paradox is above every