21 MARCH 1969, page 16

Practical Jokers

ROBERT BIRLEY I look back on my own time at a public board- ing school, just before and after 1920, and think what memories come at once to my mind. Les- sons with the senior......

Paris In The Age Of Absolutism Orest Ranum (wiley And

Co 75s cloth, 38s paper) New Rome J. H. PLUMB Wandering through a great city creates a sense of the haphazard nature of time : the change of fashion creates decay; its reversal......