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Fro' First To Last, A Muddle!

William Scammell THE PILGRIM EDITION OF THE LETTERS OF CHARLES DICKENS, VOLUME VII, 1853-1855 edited by Graham Storey, Kathleen Tillotson and Angus Easson OUP, £85, pp. 975......

Pa For The Course

Archie Powell THE FAVOURITE by Meredith Daneman Faber, £14.99, pp. 163 I n her first novel for ten years, Meredith Daneman tackles a weighty subject. The Favourite deals with......

The Company He Kept

Richard Terrell A VERY INGENIOUS MAN: CLAUDE MARTIN IN EARLY COLONIAL INDIA by Rosie Llewellyn Jones OUP, New Delhi, Rs 325, £15.95, pp.24I h e career of Major General Claude......

Inheritance

Above all, a certain meanness of spirit, an inability to forgive and forget even minor transgres- sions. I'll get him for that. I seem to have inherited the wrong things from my......