14 MAY 1954, Page 16

IL PRIGIONIERO SIR,—Your music critic, in his review of the

Third Programme broadcast of Dallapiccola's

Prigioniero, errs in attributing La Torture par Esperance to Barbey d'Aurevilly. The author of that famot..z:, short story was the Comte de Villiers de Visle-Adam. It appears in Conies Cruels.—Yours faithfully,

G. 1 icKELL

2 The Moorings, Strand-on-the-Green, Chiswick