1 NOVEMBER 1969, page 22

Folk Tales

Odds and gods K. CROSSLEY-HOLLAND A young Armenian volinist once told me, In clipped English, a delightful anecdote about a haircut. His uncle had been to the barber one morning......

Enchanted Island

BRYAN ROBERTSON The Beautiful Island Meg Rutherford (Allen and Unwin 21s) Meg Rutherford is an Australian sculptress in her mid-thirties who studied at the Slade School of Art......

Jottings

TREVOR GROVE Hadrian in the Orient Candida Lycett Green and Christopher Thynne (Collins lOs 6d) SATURDAY—SUNDAY I spent the weekend quietly in Wiltshire with some young friends......