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Neither Short Nor Sharp Nor Shocking

Douglas Murray A BAEDEKER OF DECADENCE: CHARTING A LITERARY FASHION, 1884-1927 by George C. Schooitield Yale, £30, pp. 415, ISBN 0300047142 o be fair to him, George C.......

That Was The Week That Was

Charlotte Moore ONCE IN AUGUST LONG AGO by Liam Nolan Greylake Publications, £9.95, pp. 174, ISBN 0954386701 A utisin is in the air. Newspaper articles, television programmes......

Incident At Senepta

2 November 188 AD I never knew you, only your sad tragedy, little Epaphroditos. Eight years old, slave to the son-in-law of Leonides. I see you there, neglecting some dull......