26 JANUARY 1951, Page 16

" Discursions " SIR.—Sir Osbert Sitwell must be disappointed of

at least half his hope (side your review of his reprinted essays), for the word " discursion " is not quite as new as he assumes. G. K. Chesterton's Alarunis and Discursions was published (by Methuen) as long ago as 1910.—Yours faithfully, GERALD BIL Savile Club, 69 Brook Street, W.I.