10 JANUARY 1964, page 23

Back To The Land

My Mortal Enemy. By Willa Cather. (Hamish Hamilton, 12s. 6d.) Her ears had been pierced against a piece of cork by her great-aunt when she was seven years old. In those germless......

Day Of The Crescent

As Glubb Pasha writes in his book, one of the results of neglecting the study of Arab history in the West has been to distort the real reasons for the fall of the Roman Empire......