'rum ARCHBISHOP has a curious capacity for saying the wrong
thing, as in his remarks about Arch- bishop Makarios last week. But he also has a large capacity for saying the right thing, as The Arch- bishop Speaks, Selected Addresses and Speeches (Evans, 18s.), which is published this week, abun- dantly shows. Some of Dr. Fisher's more unfortu- nate utterances have taken place in the House of Lords, and the compiler of this volume wisely reprints only one of these, though he would have been wise not to have printed any at all, since the one he does print is the notorious speech on gambling. All the speeches reprinted here were evidently carefully prepared—it is in his off-the- cuti comments that the Archbishop most often fails—and they make a collection which could be equalled by few if any men in public life today. The introduction dispels one illusion. I had always thought the Archbishop got four firsts at Oxford. Apparently he only got three.
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