15 DECEMBER 1984, page 42

Postscript

Praise P. J. Kavanagh This will be hopelessly out of date by the 1 time it hits the news-stands (in snow, perhaps) but all week we have been driving through bucketing rain. At......

Low Life

Part and parcel Jeffrey Bernard O ne of the more boring, sickening and sad things about becoming a more and more middle-aged hack is the business of having to write more and......

Competition

No. 1351: Wisdom of the elders Set by Jaspistos: In A. E. Housman's parody, 'Fragment of a Greek Tragedy', the Chorus sagely address a young man: And, 0 my son, be, on the one......

No. 1348: The Winners

Jaspistos reports: Competitors were given an extract from Frank Harris's Autobiogra - phy and asked to imagine it after 'improve - ment' by Henry James's editorial hand. I......