22 SEPTEMBER 1923, Page 13

FOX INTO RABBIT.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]

SIR,—It is ungracious to pick holes in such a delightful article as " The Doctor of Divinity." May I, however, point out that it was not Brer Rabbit who " lay low and kept on saying nothing," but Brer Fox and the Tar Baby respectively ? Vide Nights with Uncle Remus, or Brer Rabbit in Stead's Books for the Bairns.—I am, Sir, &c.,