10 SEPTEMBER 1994, page 25

All This, And Legs Too

John Lyttle examines the new phenomenon of stars who want their fame to be infinitely translatable LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, pause a moment with me to consider the strange case of......

One Hundred Years Ago

THE DUTCH, who are at home an effi- cient people, make a horrid mess of their foreign possessions. The natives in South Africa regard them with horror, and in the Eastern......