5 FEBRUARY 1927, Page 20

HOWLERS [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] SIR,— When my

uncle was ill long ago he was attended by two eminent surgeons—Watson Cheyne and Joseph Fayrer. A small boy in the house Was heard to speak of Dr. Watch and Chain and said to his mother : "Mummy, I didn't know that Joseph and Pharaoh were still alive."—I am, -Sir, &c., J. B. W.

Edinburgh.