21 MAY 1948, Page 16

THE FIRST ALPHABET Sia,—I should be much obliged if you

would draw the attention of your readers to the fact that the date of K'ang-hsi is A.D. 1662-1722, not 1722-1662 B.C., as printed in my review of Dr. Diringer's Alphabet in The Spectator last week.—Yours faithfully, G. R. DRIVER. Magdalen College, Oxford.