22 MAY 1959, page 28

Backstairs Boy

Tun most charming thing aboUt Endymion Porter is his name. It should have belonged to a pastoral swain, yearning for the moon as he watched his flocks among his native Cotswold......

A Natural

The Light,of Common Day. By Diana Cooper. (Rupert Hart-Davies, 25s.) THE second volume of Lady Diana Cooper's memoirs covers her life from 1923 to the outbreak of war in 1939.......