7 JUNE 1924, Page 14

"EVEN IN AN AFFIDAVIT."

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Lord Bowen said many good things : others 'are attri. buted to him. Your correspondent, " J. C. F.," I think erroneously, assigns to him the observation that truth will out, even in an affidavit. I have always understood that it was made by his equally quick-witted friend, Mr. Justice J. C. Mathew, when he was temporarily sitting as a Chancery judge. Your reference • to it in your article of May 24th was thus