25 JANUARY 1992, page 32

At The Edge

Was it the blouse-and-skirt combination, the cut Of the fair hair of the near-silhouette Against yellow sea, that made me peer and stare? I walked by white cliffs with my son......

'tinting Is All That's Worth Living For

Raymond Carr T e contempt in which the literary establishment holds the works of Robert Smith Surtees is only equalled by the con- tempt in which his readers, like myself, hold......