23 APRIL 1942, Page 12

GEORGE MOORE'S SI YLE

Stn,—Mr. Harold Nicolson's story of George Moore has moved me see how far George Moore avoided " that " and " which" in his o writings. In less than five minutes I found this charming example his consistency on page 7 of The Brook Kerith: "It was then that the conviction began to mount into his brain th he must learn all that his grandmother could tell him about Saul an David, and learning from her that they had been a great trouble Samuel he resolved never to allow a thought into his mind that tb

prophet would deem unworthy." • " No writer ought ever to use either ' which' or ' that,'" said Georg Moore to Mr. Nicolson. Yet the clumsy collection of "ti tats" I ha' quoted would have been no worse for one " which."—Yours, &c.,

WICKHAM STEED.