5 JANUARY 1985, page 31

Low Life

Down and out Jeffrey Bernard I t's nice to be able to welcome Alice Thomas Ellis aboard the Skylark or is it the Titanic? Anna, as she really is. runs one of the best lunch and......

Postscript

ah! business P J. Kavanagh T he beginning of a new year is a good time to think about changes and our attitude to them. If we dislike them it is difficult to know whether this......

Competition

No. 1353: Atalantics Set by Jaspistos: The metre and rhyme- scheme of a passage from Swinburne's Atalanta in Calydon were once adapted by E. C. Bentley thus: Let the milk that......

No. 1350: The Winners

Jaspistos reports: Competitors were asked for an extract from an imaginary biography or memoir stressing the lighter side of some notoriously grave figure of the past. Engels......