The Henson Journals

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Wednesday, November 10th, 1920.

I read through the Bishop of Ely's reply to Canon Glazebrook–"The Creed and the New Testament." It is arranged on the old tiresome plan of quotation followed by answer. His Lordship scores on the small points, and fails on the main position. Glazebrook is peculiarly vulnerable to the kind of hair–splitting criticism in which Chase excels. The point he succeeds in making – that St Paul was orthodox, is not really worth making, for nothing any longer turns on it.

Five more volumes of the Loeb classics arrived. The price has now risen to 10/– a volume. The range of the series is well illustrated by the latest issues. They are the following:–

Seneca. Ad Lucilium Epistuloe Morales.

Martial. Epigrams.

Marcus Cornelius Fronto. Correspondence.

Thucydides.

Plutarch. Lives.

Mrs Lowe and another lady came to lunch. Ella and I walked for an hour in the Park. There is a noble view of the palace & the country from the golf–course.

I wrote to the Bishop of Ely, indicating very politely my feeling that his argument, effective enough in its way, was not really relevant to the main question.

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