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Lenny The Lion

Peter Nichols LEONARD BERNSTEIN by Paul Myers Phaidon, £14.99, pp. 240 L eonard Bernstein and I go back a long way — to 1968, in fact, and Berlin, where the Festwochen was to......

Blue Remembered Jokes

John Bayley THE POEMS OF A. E. HOUSMAN edited by Archie Burnett OUP, £80, pp. 580 I n his own way Housman is a humorist, most effectively when he does not seem to set out to be......