5 APRIL 1935, Page 6

Archdeacon Hunkin, who goes back to the town of his

birth as Bishop, is a convert from another Church. He was born and bred a Cornish Methodist, was educated under Dr. Barber at the best-known of Methodist founda- tions, the Leys School at Cambridge, and after that was ordained as a Wesleyan Methodist Minister and held for a time a tutorship at Headingley College, Leeds. That,. together with his definitely evangelical trend, differentiates him sharply from Dr. Frere, whom he succeeds at Truro. Dr. Frerc, moreover, is 72 and Dr. Hunkin 47—just ten years younger than the see to which he is appointed. Cornwall has clearly reason to hope for a good deal from its new Bishop. Truro, by the way, was, I believe, the scene of The Cathedral and other of Mr. Hugh Walpole's novels.