12 SEPTEMBER 1952, Page 18

Spooner and Smith -Sta,—In reviewing Lady Peck's A Little Learning,

does not Mr. Cyril Ray give his Oxford a false perspective ? He writes as if Spooner belonged to an earlier generation than A. L. Smith. But A. L. was already dead when Spooner retired from the Wardenship of New College in 1924, with six years of life before him.—Yours faithfully, A. L. IRVINE. Greenaway, Chiddingfold, Surrey.