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Dead Letters

J. H. PLUMB The Letters of Sir William Jones Garland Cannon (our , 2 vols, £1210s) Sir William Jones, judge at Calcutta, was probably the greatest oriental scholar of eighteenth......

Grass Roots

MICHAEL VREELAND Local Anaesthetic Gunter Grass translated by Ralph Manheim (Seeker and Warburg 35s) Gunter Grass has given up the drum for the television set. His reasons......

Mole Truth

GEORGE EWART EVANS Fenland Molecatcher Arthur Randell edited by Enid Porter (Routledge and Kegan Paul 21s) When a man talks about his craft, especially if it is one he has......