27 SEPTEMBER 1957, page 24

The Hydraulic Society

THAT despotism should be Oriental has always seemed a fitting sort of notion. Athenian freedom contrasted with the slavish obedience of the Medes and the Persians, the decline......

Over Clipped Hedges

COWPER and Jefferies seem to stand at opposite ends of the Rural Revolution. In 1784 Cowper wrote to LJnwin telling him that the aim of Th e Task was 'to discountenance the......