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Establishing A Dangerous President

Raymond Carr MAXIMILIAN AND JUAREZ by Jasper Ridley Constable, £16.95, pp. 362 O n 19 June 1867 the Emperor Maxim- ilian of Mexico, brother of Franz Joseph Emperor of Austria,......

Decomposing In The Sterility Of Print

Tom Shone SING THE BODY ELECTRIC by Adam Lively Chatto, £15.99, pp. 440 A . S. Byatt, trying her hand at a dust- jacket puff for Adam Lively's new book, calls it a novel 'which......

Easy Writing's Vile, Hard

Victoria Rothschild FIVE EASY PIECES by William Scammell Sinclair-Stevenson, £7.99, pp. 192 T his is William Scammell's seventh book of poems — he also edits, and writes......