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Slapstick

Benny Green B!smarck Alan Palmer (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £6.95) P ost-Victorian Britain, 1902-51 L. C. B. Se aman (University Paperbacks £4.50) It has always seemed to me a......

Cloistered

Geoffrey Grigson The Uses of Division: Unity and Disharmony in Literature John Bayley (Chatto and Windus £4.50) Readers should reject criticism which does not turn them from the......

That Big!

James Hughes-Onslow An lncompleat Angler Lord Hardinge of Penshurst (Michael Joseph £4.25) People who oppose bloodsports on grounds of cruelty really ought to grapple with the......