23 DECEMBER 1966, page 11

Socket's Expedition

By LORD EGREMONT My ancestor was a bookish man. He ought to have been happy in the Tower. But he wasn't. Despite the fact that he wasn't an out-of-doors man, he longed for the......

A Christmas Sermon

By AUBERON WAUGH I is not hard to see why most grown-ups detest 'Christmas nowadays. It is expensive and tawdry, a time for self-deception and false senti- ment. It is a......