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Sun-birds At Seria

In wicker chairs with whiskeys in their paws The ex-patriates sit. Less savage than it seems, The sun, obedient to its natural laws, Shines on their talk of tax-avoidance......

Danger From

the past or an unwashed salad Francis King PERSISTENT RUMOURS by Lee Langley Heinemann, £14.99, pp. 294 I n this novel past and present are like trains routed on parallel lines.......

A Nudge Is As Good As A Sneer

Antony Flew THE CULTURE OF CONTENTMENT by John Kenneth Galbraith Sinclair-Stevenson, £14.95, pp. 195 T his latest and perhaps last book by an author whom, we are told, is......