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I am an original subscriber to TIME and take as much interest in your front covers as I do any other part of your magazine. I have been hoping week after week to see the picture of William Lyon Phelps appear, but have never yet seen it. Is it not sufficient achievement that he has endeared himself to a hundred million readers of his articles that you could give him space one week ?
MILDRED FUNK
Springfield, Ill.
Original Subscriber Phelps has twice appeared pictorially among the pages of TIME (May 15, 1925, and January 25, 1926.)—ED.
Nelson's Ship
Sirs: In the article [TIME, Oct. 18] describing the dedication of the new chapel at Mercersburg Academy, you write of metal scraps from Nelson's Trafalgar Flagship Victoria to be melted into a bell. The act of calling H. B. M. S. Victory, Victoria reminds me of the nice middle-aged lady from the United States, who was being shown over the Victory. A bluejacket guide pointed out the raised brass plate on the quarter deck, and said: "That madam, is the spot where Lord Nelson fell." The lady replied: "Dear me! I almost fell over that myself."
W. F. JACOBS
Commander, U. S. Navy, Canal Zone
Cristobal, C. Z.
Candid
Sirs:
Keep on being candid whether you are talking about Jews, Catholics or Protestants. TIME can never be accused of being partial.
ROBERT E. BRUCE
Port Deposit, Md.
* Martin Luther : The Man and His Work, by Arthur Cushman McGiffert, onetime (1917-26) President of Union Theological Seminary, preceding Henry Sloane Coffin (TIME. Nov. 15).
* H. R. H., a biography of His Royal Highness, by Major F. E. Verney
* Doran ($2.50).—ED.
± Play by Sir James Matthew Barrie, currently successful in Manhattan.—ED.