15 JUNE 1956, page 12

Scotch And Water

By MORAY McLAREN T HE most embarrassing sounds that can be made by the human voice in these islands are from (a) a Scot trying, and failing, to speak 'high English,' (b) an......

Saint Ike And His Times

BY D. W. BROGAN S WINBURNE said that Tennyson's Idylls of the King ought to have been called Norte d'Albert' and some such irreverent thought overcame me as I read Mr. Pusey's......

The Cost Of French Travel ?

By GLYN E. DANIEL T T this time of the year a middle-aged man's fancy turns to thoughts of travel and, eagerly, as from Easter to Whitsun the bookshops restock with current......