19 JANUARY 1968, page 9

Animal Crackers

PERSONAL COLUMN KENNETH ALLSOP There are twenty million pets kept in Britain. Most of them—it has seemed to me at gloomy moments—live with- me. Just after income tax had been......

A Hundred Years Ago

From the 'Spectator,' 18 January, 1868—Mr Fawcett delivered a lecture on Tuesday to the Reform League on the condition of the agricul- tural population, whom he described as......