23 OCTOBER 1964, page 30

The Feminine Condition

By MARY HOLLAND I WAS taught French literature in the sixth form by a woman who could remember when the pupils in her charge were given an education consisting mainly of......

Afterthought

By ALAN BRIEN I TURNED to the index of The Faber Book of Aphor- isms (Faber, 30s.), edited by W. H. Auden and Louis Kronenberger, with the pessimism born of long experience. I......