[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sza,—As a side issue
to this question, it is amusing to observe that while the Church presses the Bible into the hand of every child who can read, it would deny to the child's parents the trivial lubricities of our younger writers for the stage. A boy or girl may study the Old Testament, while the father', of them must not listen to Mr. Noel Coward !—I am, Sir, &c., EDEN Prim-rows.
Torquay.
[But it is not only the parents who are offered the trivia! lubricities. The author of The Farmer's Wife has such a delightful power of discrimination—for his critical humour amounts to that—that he surprises us when he makes a com- parison that leaves intention out of the matter. Every serious history of wicked man is tolerable, even for the young ; many vicious works of art are tolerable because they have won their place in literature. So long as the commentary—Lit any—is the work of a scholat we do not complain. But all that is different from the same material dealt out with leers and winks.—ED. Spectator.]
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