26 JULY 1946, Page 4

Some appointments, ecclesiastical and otherwise, are commonplace, some are definitely

interesting. The acceptance of a canonry at Westminster and the Rectorship of St. Margaret's by Canon Charles Smyth, of Corpus, Cambridge, is of the latter order, for Canon Smyth is a distinctly interesting personality. He is a sound his- torian and a pungent and forcible writer, as the columns of this journal have more than once borne winless ; I drew atte;.7on here last year to a very striking Lent book from his pen, Friendship with