1 SEPTEMBER 1950, Page 3

There were two letters in Monday's Times, one emanating from

The Palace, Chichester, the other from the Deanery, Chichester, the letter embodying some restrained but crisp criti- cism of an earlier letter from the Palace, Chichester. And why not ? Well, I don't know, except for the sake of appearances, and appearances sometimes count for something. But Bishops and Deans cannot, after all, be expected to see eye to eye on everything—witness, in fiction, the Bishop of Barchester and Dean Arabin, and in painfully real life Dr. Fisher of Canterbury and Dr. Hewlett Johnson of the same.