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Adonis Blue

Today in a field of lucerne ninety nine butterflies flew around in shimmying circles, daft and dizzy and blue; hieroglyphs for recalling the sky on the day it was planned, these......

A Funny Old Prize

John Bowen B etty Trask was a romantic novelist: the bosoms of her heroines heaved and they suffered delicious frissons in the pres- ence of clean-cut masculine men. She left......

Youth's Stuff Should Not Endure

Nigel Spivey MISREADINGS by Umberto Eco Cape, f9.99, pp. 180 P osthumously published juvenilia usually constitutes an act of homage. But for an author to collect his......