21 SEPTEMBER 1918, Page 14

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATCYR."1

SER,—In a divinity examination at Oxford, the passage was set from the Gospel of St. John viii. 44: " 671 lfree'CrInS /arts sal 6 varitp adroD. Nine candidates for Honour Mods translated this: For he is a liar, and so is his father." Mr. J. Y. Sargent, who was one of the examiners, told me that they wondered at first whether these nine men held some novel theory of the ancestry of the Devil. But a tentative examination in ririi voce revealed the fact that they had never seen the passage, and made an uncommonly good shot at it.—I am, Sir, tie.,

A. J. DE HAVILLAND BUSHNELL.

12 Suffolk Square, Cheltenhant.