First Impressions

This week's First Impressions comes from a philosopher who was close to Pope and never far from a mitre:

"Philosophy being nothing else but the study of wisdom and truth, it may with reason be expected, that those who have spent most time and pains in it should enjoy a greater calm and serenity of mind, a greater clearness and evidence of knowledge, and be less disturbed with doubts and difficulties than other men."

The winner of last week's competition, who identified Alice Walker's The Color Purple , is Mary Jones of Derbyshire.