15 FEBRUARY 1952, Page 14

. LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

The Second Elizabeth

SIR,—Affer reading your note, A Stricken People, in the Spectator of February 8th, I thought I would see what John Richard Green in his History of the English People had to say about the accession to the throne of Queen Elizabeth I and about her reign. I found the following: " Never had the fortunes of England sunk to a lower ebb than at the moment when Elizabeth mounted the throne." Again: " While England became ' a nest of singing birds' at home, the last years of Elizabeth's reign were years of splendour and triumph abroad." History has repeated itself, and may it do so again.—Yours faithfully, C. DOUGLAS-JONES. Pine Lodge, West Byficet, Surrey.