14 AUGUST 1926, Page 13

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIE,—It may interest you

that the late Professor John F. Genung, of Amherst College, 'U.S.A., used to suggest that Lazarus was the author . of the Fourth Gospel and that Jesus deliberately allowed him to die in order that he might give to that gospel the spiritual insight which the book certainly possesses.—I am, Sir, &c.,