3 NOVEMBER 1961, page 10

The Coffee Slurpers Of Old Nile

From DESMOND STEWART CAIRO HE coffee-slurpers of Egypt, her 'multi- tudinous bureaucrats, have a long ancestry. We see them in the frescoes of Sakkara, stout, sedentary scribes,......

Sad Stories Of The Death Of Queens

By D. W. BROGAN (1 NE of the earliest memories of my child- 1 14,../ hood, which I was old enough to under- stand, was the sight of the Lusitania anchored off Fairlie in the......