17 NOVEMBER 1973, page 17

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OF BOOKS Richard Luckett on the strange fate of Edmund Wilson A tribute by Leon Edel prefaces The Devils and Canon Barham*, the last in Edmund Wilson's series of 'literary......

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J. Enoch Powell Pro m Aid to Recolonisation: the lessons of a failure Tibor Mende (Harrup £3.00) The whole episode of 'aid, to developing countries' since the Second World War......

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