19 APRIL 1924, Page 14

OBLIQUE NARRATION.

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Coppard, in your issue of March 29th, invites Inc to defend my occasional use of the device of oblique narration. In my view the great advantage of the method, when applied to the short story, is that it enables one to fuse into a brief unity events ranging over space and time, and to enrich those events with the colours of a (more or less) alien personality. I am, as I need hardly add, far from claiming that this advantage is exemplified in my own work : I am concerned only defend- a method.—I am, Sir, &c., GERALD BITLLETT.

Mead Cottage, Chinnor hill, Oxon.