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Nasty Politician, Good Diarist

John Zametica THE POLITICAL DIARY OF HUGH DALTON, 1918-40, 1945-60 edited by Ben Pimlott Capel LSE, f40 'A great booming bully' is how Tho- mas Barman, the distinguished......

Fetishism And Sodomy

Jeffrey Meyers THE GARDEN OF EDEN by Ernest Hemingway Hamish Hamilton, £9.95 H emingway's weaker novels, based on recycled rather than recent experience, are more......