19 APRIL 1935, page 11

The Point-to-point

By BARBARA WORSLEY-GOUGH I T has been said of the English that they take their pleasures sadly. I think that this is untrue. They take them not so much in sorrow as in earnest.......

Accid1e

By Dr. W. B. SELBIE T HERE is a very mediaeval flavour about this word. Chaucer speaks of accidie as " ye anguishe of a trouble hert." and as making a man " 'levy, thoughtful -......