20 AUGUST 1954, page 6

Bridgework

Although in medieval times ladies sent their suitors on extraordinary errands, giving in return for a dragon's molar their everlasting love, in these enlightened times it seems......

Slow Coaches

I am becothing increasingly convinced that road accidents would be lessened if no one was allowed to drive under 40 milds an hour except in built-up areas. A queue of five cars,......

The Road To Heaven

'To those people who deplore the present generation's lack of religion 1 would commend a verse from a hymn by Dr. Isaac Watts, the early eighteenth-century theologian and author......

A Spectator's Notebook

T HAT Lord Russell of Liverpool should prefer to resign from a high Government office rather than suppress his book on Nazi war crimes is, from an author's point of view,......

The Red Biddy Peril

It is not astonishing that Russia should remind its more escapist comrades that drunkenness as well as religion, private ownership and immorality are relics of an effete......

Le Lit De Mon Oncle

It is time that someone wrote a book on the evolution of the bed, that indispensable adjunct to humanity's more splendid if slightly vulgar celebrations, birth, love and death.......

British Railways Roundabout

F OR a long time now British Railways have been lurching on from crisis to crisis; so it would be too hasty to greet the latest convulsion with cries of final disaster. Never-......