5 JANUARY 1968, page 9

Two Faces Of Libel

THE LAW R. A. CLINE What song the siren Lord Goodman sang to the New York lawyers about Mr Wil- son's libel action, and what responses they gave, though puzzling questions, are......

Feast Of Clio

THE PRESS DONALD McLACHLAN What, I wondered, could bring no fewer than four distinguished Express men to the Public Record Office at ten o'clock of a winter's morn- ing? Was it......

A Hundred Years Ago From The 'spectator', 4 January...

is a mania for Mr. Dickens's readings in the United States of such force and magnitude that the day breaks,—we hope not so cold a day as we have had recently in England,—on......