The Old Adam
THIS is an account, engaging throughout if in places clumsily written, of sexual practice in Europe from about AD 500 to 1500. James Cleugh, eschewing titillation, is outspoken,......
The Baedeker Beat
Cities. By James Morris. (Faber, 42s.) The Splendour of Israel. By Robert Payne. (Hale, 21s.) Quest Under Capricorn. By David Attenborough. (Lutterworth, 21s.) JOURNALISI S and......
Two Old English Riddles For Christmas
Translated by Kevin Crossley-Holland FIRE On earth there's a warrior of curious origin. He's created, gleaming, by two dumb creatures For the benefit of man. Foe bears him......
Down And Out
MR. KIRWAN was a special correspondent in London for the New York World in the late 1860s. Some of his dispatcheS were put together as a book and published in the States in 1870......
Horn I'm Loved By My Lord, And His Shoulder Companion.
I'm the comrade of a warrior, A friend of the King. Frequently the fair-haired Queen, the daughter of an Earl, deigns To lay her hand upon me in spite of her nobility 1 carry......
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