16 DECEMBER 1955, page 8

I Should Have Thought That The Aim Of Any Passenger

transport undertaking would be to provide the road service in the right place at the right time. But some people in outlying parts of the great area served by London Transport......

The Prince Of Monaco, It Is Reported, Has Set Off

to look for a wife. She must apparently be young, attractive, educated, intelligent and of good family. All this is reasonable enough, but when the Prince goes on to observe......

Friends Wide Apart

BY PATRICK LEIGH FERMOR T HE sudden irruption of the Turks into the Anglo-Greek deadlock gave matters an unexpected and ugly turn. Soon, for different reasons, the British and......

Mr. Cecil Day Lewis's Term As Professor Of Poetry In

the University of Oxford runs out in a few months. Two or three weeks ago Mr. W. H. Auden took the trouble to take his M.A. Is there any connection? * * *......

Miffy Intelligence

ALL NANNIES and many governesses, when pouring out tea, put the milk in first. . . . Sharp children notice that this is not normally done in the drawing-room. To some this......

The Best Thing To Say About The Fourth Bedside Guardian

(Collins, 12s. 6d.) is that while all the pieces are equal in their excellence, some are more equal than others. But some people are foolish enough to keep on supposing that......