W. W. Jacobs, remembered today almost exclusively for his horror story "The Monkey's Paw" (The Lady of the Barge, 1902), was one of the most popular English humorists of the early twentieth century. His stories, many of them amusing tales of life along t...
A SHORT TREATISE ON THE GREAT VIRTUES by Andre Comte-Sponville Heinemann, 17.99, pp. 290, ISBN 0434009687 One of the paradoxes of the liberal upbringing is that parents who believe virtue to be acquired and not inherited often make comparatively little effort to inculcate...
"Of course 'manners makyth man'. This is the motto on the coat of arms in my study and it has been the motto of Winchester College throughout its long history. Back in the Sixties when I trained as a teacher, an essay I wrote...
