25 JANUARY 1963, page 19

Bull Headed

The Irish Comic Tradition. By Vivian Mercier. (O.U.P., 30s.) TIP" the comic few subjects seem more liable to provoke dull books: this is especially true of academic writers,......

Southern Crossings

GOVERNOR PHILLIP, his administrative staff, crews, soldiers and 750 convicts arrived to found the colony of New South Wales in January, 1788. The first of the eleven ships to......

Amorous Worms

THE tube railways are all parts of a puzzle and it is left to destiny to see how they can be Pieced together,' it was said in 1902, when tube- building mania was at its most......