23 JUNE 1939, page 20

[to The Editor Of The Spectator] Sir, — It Is Not, Of

course, possible to reply to all the assertions made by my critics, but it is difficult to deny myself the pleasure of pointing out how often they reply to one another. " I am......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator]

Snt,—Mr. H. G. Wood writes : " Early impressions go deep, and if the first fond prayers which our lips in childhood framed took the form, ' Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, look......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator]

SIR, Mr. C. W. Early's reference to Professor Joad as "a bitter enemy of the best and highest things " strikes me as fantastic as it is offensive. Professor Joad, in his......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator] Sir, Wi . H Twenty-five...

subscription to The Spectator behind me, I can recollect reading few articles with greater interest than " The Gospels Re-read." As a young man who "did eagerly frequent doctor......

[to The Editor Of The Spectator]

Sm,—Many must have read Professor Joad's and Mr. Wood's articles as well as your correspondents' letters with great in- terest, but there is one point upon which very little is......

The Gospels Re - Read [to The Editor Of The Spectator]...

Joad goes to work on the Gospels quite wrong- headedly. He should know by this time that no whole or true impression of Jesus Christ can be received by a " mind deliberately......