8 OCTOBER 1904, Page 15

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR.'J

Srn,—In the Spectator of September 24th a correspondent gives "preaching tub" as a new name for "pulpit," invented by a Chinese carpenter. In J. K. Fowler's "Echoes of Old Country Life," published some twelve or thirteen years ago, the following is given as the answer of a clerk to a Suffolk Archdeacon, who had asked what sort of a man the rector was. "Well, Sir, he ain't much in the tub, but he's stunning