20 MAY 1955, page 14

City And Suburban

BY JOHN BETJEMAN i ' NTRICACIES of social life,' says Anthony Powell in his new novel The Acceptance World, 'make English habits unyielding to simplification.' One of the......

At The Same Time. I Know Not Exactly How, I

learned other interesting facts about him. He cut down trees with a dexterity and efficiency which had astonished the wood-cutters of the world; he had invented a marvellous bag......