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Did They Or Didn't They, Or Don't We Care?

Raymond Carr THE LETTERS OF ARTHUR BALFOUR AND LADY ELCHO edited by Jane Ridley and Clayre Percy Hamish Hamilton, £25, pp. 370 T he fascination of this exchange of letters......

In Which Our Hero Becomes An Addict

Celestria Noel BAD NEWS by Edward St Aubyn Heinemann, £13.99, pp. 217 T here is a legendary opening sentence for a novel which goes: 'I was more than usually drunk the night my......