21 NOVEMBER 1952, page 17

The Master Of Names

By SIR HFNRY BASHFORD 0 student, • unencumbered with a knowledge of .history and archaeology, can doubt that Wiltshire , and DOrsetshire were once , visited by a.supreme poet.......

Fables Of Today—ii

The Great Salmon . By JACQUETTA HAWKES I N a certain country there was a famous salmon-river. Starting from one of those dark mountain tarns whose beds were torn out long since......