20 MARCH 1920, Page 12

• ST. ALPHONSUS

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

Sm.,—In your review of The Roman Mischief-Maker you allude to St. Alphonsus Liguori as " the eighteenth-century Jesuit." If the other statements in your review are as inaccurate as this one, it is well for your reputation for accuracy, if not for fairness, that you refuse to open your columns to correspondence on the subject.—I am, Sir, &c., H. F. CHADWICK. Timaru, Andover Down, Hants.

We do not, of course, refuse to publish letters correcting errors of fact. We regret that we implied that Alphonsus was a member of the Jesuit Order. But as the main work of his life was to elaborate the Jesuit doctrine of casuistry, the inaccuracy does not affect our argument.—ED. Spectator.]