19 OCTOBER 1956, page 27

Weather-cock

THE function of Punch for most of 115 years has been to mirror accurately, then to mould subtly, and finally to create entirely certain middle-class attitudes towards (a) the......

Over The Water

Intercepted Post, edited by Donald Nicholas (Bodley Head, 16s.), a miscellaneous collection of letters, written principally by Jacobite sympathisers and intercepted during the......

G-men

*G-MEN' merely means 'Government men': the nickname was invented by Machine-Gun Kelly in 1933 for the FBI, which dates from 1908. With headquarters at Washington, under the......

New Novels

A TRADITIONAL week, fictionally speaking; the standard high, but without any surprises, the expected qualities and a good deal more. Storm Jameson's The Intruder (Macmillan,......