11 DECEMBER 1920, Page 14

PATTERNS OF SOUND.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sia,—A passage in your notice of Mr. Vachel Lindsay's poems in your issue of November 6th to the effect that a good actor creates for any worthy piece he may be rendering a beautiful pattern of sound—something which it be a pleasure for a foreigner to listen to even if he could not understand it— recalls a remark made by some French people many years ago when I was Chaplain of the Anglican Church of All Saints at Costebelle. They had looked in during a Sunday meeting, and at lunch, at the Pension lea Mimosas, said to me: "We didn't understand a word, but we liked the sound of the English."—I am, Sir, &c., H. J. SHAW,

Chaplain of Holy Trinity Church. Bishop's House, Sliema, Malta.