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It Beggars Belief

Byron Rogers THE BEGGAR'S BENISON by David Stevenson Tuckwell. £18.99, pp. 276, ISBN 1862321345 h is book should be the most heroic work on the shelves of any historical......

A Man Of Letters But Not Books

David Hughes JAMES STERN: A LIFE IN LETTERS, 1904-1993 by Miles Huddleston Michael Russell, £25, pp, 322, ISBN 0859552721 I n 1971 James Stern was asked to write an article on......