28 MAY 1977, page 23

Languages And Dialects

Michael Wharton Linguistic Minorities in Western Europe Meic Stephens (Gomer Press, £9.50) In London just before the last war, when I was trying to learn Welsh, many shops were......

Acting Out

Peter Ackroyd The Ponsonby Post Bernice Rubens (W H. Allen E3.95) When, in Bernice Rubens's latest novel, a plane is called 'Progress' and when that plane actually crashes on a......