22 DECEMBER 1961, Page 9

ANGLO-CHRISTIAN ATTITUDES

SIR,—In last week's Spectator in a review of Fathers of the Victorians: the Age of Wilberforce, by Ford K. Brown, the reviewer. Mr. Simon Raven. attributes to Oscar Wilde the well-known sentence from Lord Macaulay's essay on Moore's Life of Lord Byron: 'We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.'