12 MAY 1950, page 10

The Old Oak

By W. M. NEWMAN NE can grope back into the past by many routes, and those are safest which keep one's feet most firmly on the ground. Reasoning from the book may be right if the......

Maypoles And Puritans

By LESLIE HOTSON W HEN Chaucer's restless spring comes round, I always long to go on pilgrimage in search of Shakespeare's - England ; and experience invariably turns my steps......