29 OCTOBER 1910, Page 20

SOME LETTERS TO PIUS X. [To THE EDITOR OF THE

"SPECTATOR."] Sin,—That my reference to the late Father Tyrrell should have given offence to his friends is a matter of regret to me, the more since it has caused one of them to form an unfavour- able, and mistaken, opinion of American Catholics in general. To my lacking in facility of expression must be attributed the fact that my letter has been regarded as an attack on Modernism, when it was intended as a protest against the Spectator's endorsement of an anonymous attack upon the clergy and laity of the Catholic Church in the United States.