31 DECEMBER 1921, Page 13

THE CALENDAR.

ITO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—In the notice which you have kindly published in last week's Spectator of my essay on The Calendar, it is suggested that I have overlooked the evidence as to the date of the Nativity derived from Sir William Ramsay's recent discoveries ill Pisidia. May I be allowed to mention that that evidence is briefly summarized on pp. 53 and 54, and a reference given to Professor Ramsay's book, The Bearing of the Recent Discovers on the Trustworthiness of the New Testament? Although I

have not accepted this important evidence as conclusive, I

have not overlooked it.—I am, Sir, &c., ALEX. PHILIP. [The reviewer was referring to a more recent paper by Sir W. Ramsay in the Journal of Roman Studies.—En. Spec- tator.]