4 JANUARY 1963, page 21

To Aleppo Gone

IN the summer of 1670, hunting at Chambord, I °Ws XIV commanded a diversion for his court. He proposed to his masters of music and revels a ballet exhibiting Turkish dress and......

On The Ball

The Footballer's Companion. Edited by Brian Glanville. (Eyre and Spottiswoode, 25s:) THE literature of football is unmarked by the infinitely tedious belle-lettrism that is the......