6 MARCH 1982, page 26

Frailty

Kathy O'Shaughnessy Novels teach the youthful mind 1 NI to sigh after happiness that never ex- isted° wrote Oliver Goldsmith reprovingly. In the late 18th-century bored young......

Arts

Emotional weight Rodney Milnes The Bartered Bride (WNO, Cardiff) Commedia (NOC, Sadler's Wells) T he Bartered Bride (1866) pre-dates The Mastersingers by two years, though it......