23 FEBRUARY 1968, page 28

Sir : There Is One Point In Josephine Boyle's Spirited

letter (16 February) which 1 really must contest. Mrs Boyle writes: 'Mr Raven . . . comes from the right class, went through all the right educational processes and has always......

The Wissolini Diaries

AFTERTHOUGHT JOHN WELLS All over the world in recent years the price of works of art has been rising alarmingly. Ideal landscapes, grandiose futuristic designs and pop-art......

No. 487: The Winnners

In his essay on 'Politics and the English Lan- guage' George Orwell laments the indiscipline of prose writing in general and of 'officialese' in particular. That George Orwell......

No. 489: The Word Game

COMPETITION Competitors are invited to use the following ten words, taken from the opening passages of a well-known work of literature, in the order given, to construct part of......