To the Editor:

I quote from “Sarah to Sylvia to Shirley” by A. A. Roback, in the September COMMENTARY:“Particularly painful to the lover of the traditional is the neglect Jews show toward that richest of all treasuries of given names, the Bible—a treasury pre-eminently their own.”

In the catalogues of the New York Public Library, there are listed twenty of the masterly works of the erudite A. A. Roback.

In nineteen of the twenty works, the name of the author as listed on the title is given as “A. A. Roback.” In the earliest of the twenty, written in 1916, the author’s name is listed as “Abraham A. Roback.”

As indicated in the library catalogue, the author’s full name is Abraham Aaron Roback.

Sidney H. Reiss
New York City