19 APRIL 1957, page 20

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The Latin Landscape BY PETER QUENNELL N EARLY a decade before the birth of Christ, a famous Roman poet bequeathed his little country house and the surrounding demesne to the......

Fancy Dress Days

WE are all to some extent the victims of our own previous interests and experiences. It is no sur- prise, therefore, that we enjoy refighting old battles—it is also perhaps the......