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Sir: I feel compelled to make my protest against the

cover contents of your last week's issue (23 Janu- ary) which I find revolting and infinitely distressing.

My family has taken the SPEC- TATOR for about forty years and this departure from what has been so long a decent and honourable journal is a very deplorable change.

Allowing for all freedom in ex- pression of opinion, it surely was unnecessary to give Professor Trevor-Roper the unusual honour of a large-print quotation on the cover of the journal and to in- clude in all two copies of the blasphemous drawing to illustrate his views.

Harriette Chick Uppercross, 34 Storey's Way, Cam- bridge

Oxford's Regius Professors' views on the historicity of Christ were unusual. Ed. SPECTATOR.