10 SEPTEMBER 1988, page 51

Afore Ye Go

Leaves from the commonplace book of Wallace Arnold I RATHER think that it was my delightful old chum and quaffing-partner Godfrey Smith who first coined that glorious phrase......

Tingles Galore

OVER the past few weeks, I have received a goodly number of appreciative letters from readers the length and breadth of the land, all of them troubled by just one aspect of what......

Make Mine Classical

I ADMIRE Trollope and Sam Johnson, Dickens and Balzac, James and Galswor- thy, and I long to find time to read their works. Good writing has been compared by none other than a......