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Until The Real Thing Comes Along

Christopher Hawtree KINGSLEY AMIS IN LIFE AND LETTERS edited by Dale Salwak Macmillan, £17.95, pp.203 K ingsley Amis's memoirs have been delighting a libel lawyer during recent......

Happy Families

I see I've got Mrs Bun the baker's wife, And Master Bun who was once a bun in her oven, And Mr Chips the carpenter, and one Of his young shavings, and Mr Boot the cobbler, And......

A Very Respectable Rimbaud

Laurence Lerner SELECTED LETTERS OF I. A. RICHARDS edited by John Constable Clarendon Press, £30, pp.272 61 never dared be radical when young', said Robert Frost once, 'for fear......