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Books

Singing in the rain Philip Hen s her IN OFFICE by Norman Lamont Little, Brown, £20, pp. 576 T ime passes, the captains and the kings depart and politics recedes into history......

Snark Or Boojum?

Patrick Skene Catling THE ENIGMA OF GIORGIO DE CHIRICO by Margaret Crosland Peter Owen, 418.95, pp. 158 G iorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) began as a nihilist and worked his way......