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Blowing Up Father

The Family Letters of Samuel Butler, 1841-1886. Edited by Arnold Silver. (Cape, 30s.) THE late nineteenth century was the age of the great antinomian moralists. Such dominating......

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The Brothers Slickey By MARTIN TURNELL ITE Goncourts began their Journal* on M December 2, 1851. They were distressed that Louis Napoldon should have chosen to launch his coup......

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