20 AUGUST 1983, page 23

The World Of Ukridge

Alan Watkins M y father's library was small but for- midable: Ruskin, Carlyle, Froude and Matthew Arnold, Gibbon and Mommsen, that kind of thing, most in the old Everyman......

Arts

The sailors' lament Peter Ackroyd Querelle ('I8', Screen on the Hill) E xciting news, last spring, that there were long queues of Parisians waiting to see this film; bars with......