<正> Abstract It is a classical result of Bernstein that the sequence of Lagrange interpolation polynomials to |x|at e-qually spaced nodes in[-1,1]diverges everywhere, except at zero and the end-points. In this paper weshow that the sequence of Lagrange interpolation polynomials corresponding to the functions which possessbetter smoothness on equidistant nodes in[-1,1]still diverges every where in the interval except at zero andthe end-points.