12 SEPTEMBER 1992, page 11

What Should They Know Of England?

John Simpson laments the decline of British diplomacy — and influence — in our former Empire, and in the wider world KIPLINGISH THOUGHTS crowded in as our bus heaved its way......

One Hundred Years Ago

IS M. PASTEUR really about to try experiments in cholera on human beings? It looks very like it. He has told the correspondent of the Times that he has tried 'choleraic vaccine'......