13 FEBRUARY 1948, Page 18

WHOSE " APOLOGY " ?

Sta,—One wonders what peculiar Denkmethode led Mr. Nicolson to ascribe the authorship of The Apology of Socrates to Aristotle. Was he "in a mood of ecstasy" when he did so? Or can he have been misled by a "phantom linguistically generated "? Here, indeed, is an interesting subject for speculation ; it might well serve as a theme for an Oxford dissertation on "The De Anima of Aristotle"!—! am, Sir, yours faith-