12 JANUARY 1929, page 9

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......

Flying To Turkey

O NCE there was a beautiful actress in Rome (bright " star of boyhood's fiery thought," her name was Clotilda Leoni) who was the heroine of a musical comedy in which she flew to......