2 JANUARY 1948, page 13

1848: Year Of Revolutions

• By JOHN A. HAWGOOD T HE year 1848 has been described by G. M. Trevelyan as the turning-point at which modern history failed to turn. This aphorism brilliantly enshrines a......

On Comets

By R. d'E. ATKINSON D URING the past sixty-five years only one really bright comet, "comet r9ioa," has followed a path which gave observers in northern lands a thoroughly......