4 OCTOBER 1963, page 10

Lead Kindly Light In My View, Any Periodical Is Entitled

to des- cribe itself as 'A Rational Approach to the Modern World . ; equally any periodical is entitled to print, consecutively, three articles entitled 'What is Man?' 'My......

With Beeching To Caledonia

There was, I discovered, no dining-car on the Saturday night train (ETD 1940 hours) from Euston to Inverness, but I was well placed in the long queue for the buffet where a......

The Hatchet Men It Will Be Some Time Before The

indignation dies that is felt in, and indeed outside, literary circles at the manner in which Harcourt Brace, the New York publishers, pole-axed their British subsidiary, Rupert......

Harvest Festival

One often comes across the expression the words stuck in his throat.' I never knew what it meant until last Sunday, with forty acres of sodden barley still to 'combine and a......

1746 And All That

When I was a child our Scottish housekeeper used to lessen the impact of all disasters, mishaps or disappointments by reminding us that 'Worse happened at Culloden,' and I grew......