6 AUGUST 1927, page 9

American English

T HE average American speaks better English than the average Englishman," wrote a recent American correspondent of the Spectator. This is both true and not true. It is true, if......

Oxford Gardens

. AWNS of the richest green and soft velvet, grass shadowed by ancient trees that have lived a quiet life here for centuries." Oxford gardens to-day are world-famous, but how......