CANON HENSLEY HENSON AND A NEW LECTIONARY.
[To Till EDITOR OW THE "SPVCIATOR." J
SIR,—An English journalist resident in Ireland recently said to me : " Why do you Irishmen say universally ' so often, when you really mean ' generally_' ? " In the Spectator of April 30th Canon Hensley Henson said about an Old Testa- ment story : " I had expounded, not without difficulty, the position, universally accepted among educated folk, that the story represented primitive and quite erroneous notions." (The italics are mine.) Has not Canon lienson fallen into our Irish fault? If even one educated person does not accept his position, his language is incorrect. As a matter of fact, there are hundreds of clergymen in many Churches, and thousands of highly educated laymen, who do not admit the truth of his position about any Bible story. In the interests of accuracy (especially in the discussion of questions bearing on public worship), accuracy which the Spectator does so much to maintain, I beg to subscribe my-
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