11 OCTOBER 1968, page 9

Forty Years On

PERSONAL COLUMN ARTHUR BARTON 'When afar and asunder, parted are those who are singing today,' the song goes on, as any old Harrovian can tell you, and any old Jarrovian too,......

A Hundred Years Ago

From the 'Spectator', 10 October 1868—Mr. Dis- raeli's "word of power" to the electors of Buckinghamshire came forth this day week . . . and very powerful it was—in a verbal......