30 AUGUST 1968, page 19

Enter Birtwistle Arts

MICHAEL NYMAN It has been left to Harrison Birtwistle to hold the fort for 'progressive' English music this week. While the Proms are indulging a Walton mini-festival, Edinburgh......

Big Deals

EXPORT ANTHONY LIVESEY Works of art to the value of more than £27 million were exported from this country during the twelve months from July 1966 to June 1967. Since this......

A' Hundred Years Ago From•the 'spectator, 29 August...

Fruit, 3 Vols. By 'the Author of Lady Audley's 'Secret, &c. (Whrd, "Lock, and Tyler.)—No writer can hope to escape the penalties which await over- production. It seems to_ us......