12 JANUARY 1929, page 10

Edmund Burke

T wo hundred years ago—and, so far as we can gather, on the twelfth of January—was born the greatest of our orators on paper. For Edmund Burke, with his awkward movements and......

Ruts

T HERE are at least two strains in walking. One makes itself felt in leg-weariness and soreness of muscle, and the other brings in its train eye-weariness, and the warier the......

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