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12 A Goldfish's Farewell To His Bowl By Strix I T

was great fun writing a book. One lived with It became a companion. It built an impal- pable crystal sphere around one of interests and ideas. In a sense one felt like a......

A Well Behaved Young Lady • Dear Joan, May I Ask

you a question or two? (Proud imperious Joan, reply.) Does your heart ever beat as others do? Will nothing melt that glacial eye? Does the languorous charm of flanking June......

City And Suburban

By JOHN BETJEMAN T TAKE full advantage of the National Health Service, and find it very useful and thank God for it. All the same, I would like to know whether there are any......