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Briscoe's Dublin

I USED to wonder why Bob Briscoe had never been made a minister in any of de Valera's cabinets: Watching him in the Dail—his nose knocked by a ru g by boot into what he......

Return From 1984

Political Prisoner. By Paul Ignotus. (Routledge, 16s.) A Study in Infamy. By George Mikes. (Andre Deutsch, 15s.) How swift the change. Driving on the sleek motorways of the......

First Seeing The Cuckoo

boctor Jenner of Berkeley. By Dorothy Fisk. (Heinemann, 25s.) Flits biogyaphy contains no dramatic conflicts, no odd background, no weird behaviour. It is a. quiet life of a......

The Making Of An American

The Return of Hyman Kaplan. By Leo Rosten. (Gollancz, 12s. 6d.) Mom than twenty years ago there appeared under the assumed name of 'Leonard Q. Ross' a book of singular......