15 SEPTEMBER 1967, page 10

Thoughts On The Thoughts

PERSONAL COLUMN ANTHONY BURGESS I have at last discovered the ideal book for a journey. Yes, you're perfectly right: not Mar- cus Aurelius, Machiavelli, a Shakespeare play or......

A Hundred Years Ago

From the 'Spectator, 14 September 1867 --12fficis Household Suffrage puts into the House of Com- mons at least a few genuine working-men, to represent the real beliefs, wishes,......

Mini Austen

TELEVISION J. W. M. THOMPSON It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a television channel in possession of a good for- tune. must be in want of a serial. And so. in-......