SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE YET AGAIN.

Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17155, 26 May 1921, Page 7

SIR ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE YET AGAIN.

TO TH* IDITOR OP "THS PEWS." gi r __"The Press"—tho inimitable "Frees" —has again risen to.tho occasion and rendered to "the gteatcst thing in the world, ' nc. online to W. K. Gladstone, who you will remember, Sir, hns been dead porno years longer than Professor Hyslop, another signal seTvico, cspoyinllv if "The Press" -'polite contemporaries" fall to and call you names indicating a character typical of a certain old ladv wcilding a broom, luey niav take umbrage at tho hoi net s sting" that is contained in the tail ot vour article. I wns hoping that Mis* Stead would bo Sir Arthurs successor. Now, don't be ungallant. If 1 could send her a cooy of "The Press" saying you would contribute to the success ot her visit by (Jevoting a whole page ol ultra-montane clerical condemnation, as greeted Sir Arthur, she may bo induced to come. Now for some of your points. I don't think Sir Arthur had "credulous" audiencesrather tho revorno. Millions of readers of the Vsßo'Owcn Script, I am sure, agree with Lord Northcliffo tlhnt it is not "yards of dull nonsense." I am sure, Sir, that discussion 011 this subject of Spiritualism (thanks to you stirring it up) is not harmful. If free thought is suppressed by the Press or any old Georgo 111. Witchcraft Act, then we would expect to create what Professor Shelley would call "poisonous sub-conscious completes," which are bad. Good on the good old we must tako care not tolcill our valiant goose on tlhis.subject,—Yours, etc- %- PETER TROLOVE. P.S.—Tho only disappointment tho Conan I>oyle visit had for me was thut I did not get a chance to match my £ golf bogey Handicap against his 9. He was keen to visit our Kaiapoi Maoris. I don't think he was afraid to tackle roe. /