6 OCTOBER 1967, page 8

Letter To A Grouse

COUNTRY LIFE STRIX DEAR GEORGE, You must, I am reasonably sure, be the first membes of your species to have assaulted a member of mine. I know from our brief. en- counter that......

Musical Box

TELEVISION STUART HOOD Watching a recording of Il Seraglio—it had been made by Austrian television at the Salz- burg Festival—I was led to wonder where the Austrians find such......

With Philby In The Foreign Office

SPIES GEOFFREY McDERMOTT In his article on spies last week Geoffrey McDermott referred to Kim Philby as the big- gest fish of the lot . . . undoubtedly Blake's spy- master . . .......