30 JANUARY 1988, page 30

A Myth Is As Good As A Male

Kevin Sharpe ELIZABETH I by Jasper Ridley Constable, .£15 I t may be revealing that whilst the symbol of Britain is the bulldog, it is our female rulers whom historians have......

The Feel Of Romantic England

Richard Ingrams JOHN PIPER: A PAINTER'S CAMERA Tate, £14.95 JOHN PIPER: THE COMPLETE GRAPHIC WORKS by Orde Levinson Faber, £40 P hotographers, by and large, are a frustrated......