18 JANUARY 1997, page 21

Where Some Sons Do Have Them

Francis Pike on the surprising power, and varied duties, of Japanese women `WHAT IS the most common problem you have to deal with?' I asked the young Japanese psychoanalyst.......

Mind Your Language

I SHOULDN'T be surprised if there were people who read all the way through The Lord of the Rings without knowing that ent is the Old English for a giant. Philology is not to be......