20 SEPTEMBER 1957, page 21

Country Beckett

T US take a look at catastrophe. What is it? Some kind of guillotine fallen, pro- d ucing an enormity of dislocation, a severing of th e li ving Godhead from its body,......

The Peculiar Caste

IN the world of its time Regency England had the standing of present-day America. It was therefore the place people went to marry money. When Prince Hermann Ptickler-Muskau......