20 APRIL 1985, page 39

Competition

No. 1368: Hullo, sailor Set by Jaspistos: In a famous passage Sir Thomas Browne wondered what song the Sirens sang and added that it was 'not beyond conjecture'. Please supply......

Postscript

B ankside P. J. Kavanagh ome time in the sixth century, before the battle of Dyrham settled the na- tives' hash, the British actually beat the Saxons, at a place called......

Home Life

No explanations Alice Thomas Ellis W e had a very ecumenical Easter in the country with a number of people who were too young to have made up their minds yet on the matter of......

No. 1365: The Winners

Jaspistos reports: Competitors were asked for a recipe for a very simple, dish in the style of a pretentious writer on cookery. Although I forgot to set a word-limit and......