12 DECEMBER 1987, page 34

Portrait Of A Country

Marie-Alice de Beaumarchais A LITLE TOUR IN FRANCE by Henry James Sidgwick & Jackson, £12.95 I t is a pity that this delightful guide is only available when the holiday season......

Richard Ingrams

T here are so few Christmas funnies nowadays that aren't reprints or rip-offs of one kind or another, that someone like Craig Brown who has actually sat down and written an......