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Yeats The Elder

Patrick Skene Catling Letters to his Son W. B. Yeats and Others, 1869-1922 J. B. Yeats (Seeker and Warburg £7.95) W hen J. B. Yeats the Elder was in London in 1872, still......

Willie Hamilton's Apprentice

Bruce Anderson The Senate of Lilliput Edward Pearce (Faber & Faber £3.95) M r Pearce does not really belong to the classic Telegraph school of sketch- writers. He entirely lacks......