23 FEBRUARY 1974, page 18

The Good Life

Confound their politicks Pamela Vandyke Price Aristotle would have been balked by me. For I am a wholly unpolitical animal. But indeed, was Aristotle gastronomic? And as......

Juliette 's Weekly Frolic

Finishing fifth in the Welsh Grand National does not get you a mention in the Sunday papers but Straight Vulgan did a lot better than most of his twenty-three opponents and in......

Country Life

Crocodile tears Peter Quince On a day when the wind howled in the tree-tops, and the rain swept across the landscape like an agent of divine retribution, it was pleasant to find......