7 JULY 1967, page 25

Best Of Hosts

GEORGE HUTCHINSON The Picnic Basket Major-General Sir Edward Spears (Seeker and Warburg 36s) Like the best of hosts, General Spears has pro- vided a delicious picnic for his......

The Theatre Of Nations Arts

ROBERT ABIRACHED Paris — The theatre, more than any other art, lives by change and confrontation. For the past dozen years there has been a steadily increasing flow of images,......

Truffle Hunter

J. H. PLUMB As assiduous as a truffle hunter, Robert Halsband has hunted down Lady Mary's letters in neglected archives or remote depositOries, indeed from the Kyles of Bute to......