14 OCTOBER 1949, Page 22

Mr. Priestley's Garden City

am surprised that, in the Spectator of October 7th, your reviewer Maurice Cranston, writing of Mr. Priestley's book, Delight, and men- tioning the latter's "own ideal community" as containing an opera- house and a restaurant, omits the most important thing—a church. This would certainly have existed "in the capital of a tiny German dukedom." What a real help it would be to millions now and to posterity if writers like Maugham, Priestley and Shaw, &c., would show us just the standards, or even the shadow, of Christianity in their books.— Yours, &c., M. M. LEAKEY. Ramsay Hall, Byron Road, Worthing.