23 JANUARY 1953, Page 19

The Four Gospels

SIR,—The Rev. R. S. Dawson has so aptly added to your notice of the translation of 'the Four Gospels by E. V. Rieu in the Penguin Classics that further comment is unnecessary. -In travelling around Lyndon and the Home COunties, I rarely see a fellow-passenger reading the New Testament. I have seen many reading this Penguin Classic, and its companion by Thomas a Kempis. The readers are predominantly young, and, I hazard a guess, would normally not read the New Testament while travelling.—Yours faithfully, 143 Albany Street, N.W.I.

H. C. Lsw-roN.