10 FEBRUARY 1939, Page 24

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR] S1R,—Juliana Berners in the

fifteenth century wrote the following : "Of the offspring of the gentilman Jafeth came Habraham, Moyses, Aron, and the profettys : and also the Kyng of the right lyne of Mary, of whom that gentilman Jhesus was borne very god and man."

Boskerris Vean, Carbis Bay, Cornwall.