24 APRIL 1920, Page 13

THE LETTER AND THE SPIRIT.

To THE EDITOR Or THE " SPF.CTATOR.".1

Sia,—Your reviewer speaks in terms of such contemptuous patronage of the Bishop of Ely's " well-meant but ill-judged entrance into a controversy which the wiser members of his Order have declined," that lie seems to forget the fact that in the opinion of most unprejudiced observers (including some of strongly "modernist" sympathies) it was the Bishop who succeeded in convicting Canon Glazebreok of some serious inaccuracies. Scholarship knows nothing of " party," and is not necessarily " uncritical " because it sometimes reaches " conservative " results. Nor, it appears, are writers always unbiassed because they happen to hold liberal views.—I am.

Sir, &c., C. R. NORCOCK. Ballingham Rectory, Hereford.