29 JANUARY 1937, Page 21

OSCAR BROWNING [To the Editor of the SPEcTxroa.] SIR,—I confess

that in quoting J. K. Stephen's epigram on Oscar Browning I did not verify my quotation. Indeed I have never discovered where the original is to be found. But I will not defend my version against that propounded by "Janus." For it agrees in all but a single word with that forwarded by a correspondent to the Daily Telegraph following the centenary article which I wrote for that paper. The lady in question heard it from 0. B.'s own lips at Maloja in 1894. Mine came from the same source a good many years