Today's 'old favourite' is a novel that will remain a favourite until all our tastes and habits of thought have entirely changed. 'Vanity Fair,' Thackeray's greatest and most popular book, is one of the best novels in the language, and it has given us a gallery of characters, headed by the supremely brilliant Becky Sharp, who will become familiar to many generations of readers yet unborn. If there should be any listeners who have not yet read it; they will repair their deficiency when they have heard Miss Ann Spice this afternoon.