26 JUNE 1941, Page 11

Sat,—The book Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is, I know,

a prose- work, but as its author can also claim some recognition as the poet who wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol, should not the obvious lovers of poetry who answered my " Query " know that Dorian was a Man?

One other small point in answer to Mr. Douglas, the Psalms were poetry in Hebrew: in the Authorised Version of the Bible they are surely but a beautiful translation happily retaining the original poetical