25 MAY 1951, Page 16

SIR,—What about It Samuel vi 16? "And as the ark

of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal, Saul's daughter, looked through a window, and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord ; and she despised him in her heart." The whole story, says Quiller-Couch, goes into about ten lines. Your psychological novelist nowadays, given the wit to invent it, would make it cover 500 pages at least.—Yours faithfully, H. G. RAWLINSON.