28 FEBRUARY 1970, page 12

New Lupercalia

CHRISTOPHER HOLLIS Excited by the lusts of spring, The Romans used to dance and sing And called it Lupercalia. Sometimes it was a great success; Sometimes one frankly must......

Table Talk

Ancestral nonsense DENIS BROGAN Returning to the subject of the French right wing thinkers which I began last week, I turn now to Gobineau. Here we have not only a race......

The Press

Watch it Willie BILL GRUNDY On 2 June, 1888, Alfred Harmsworth launched a publication called Answers to Correspondents. The first issue announced its aims in no uncertain terms:......