4 AUGUST 1939, Page 6

The publication of photographs showing the Bishop of Chester playing

a barrel-organ in the chief city of his diocese (for the benefit of local hospital funds) does not seem quite the happiest prelude to the translation of Dr. Fisher to the See of London. I do not know who the regular contributor to the Daily Mail who signs himself " Inquiring Christian " is, but there is justice as well as point in his application to the barrel-organ episode of the dictum of Marcus Aurelius, that " there is a proper dignity and propor- tion to be observed in every act of life "—and, it might he added, in every station of life.

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