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The Carolingian Legend

IT is not surprising that each generation seeks its own interpreta- tion of the figure of Charlemagne. Delisle Burns described the shout that greeted Charles's coronation in 800......

Dubliner

DUBLIN'S JOYCE. By Hugh Kenner. (Chatto and Windus, 25s.) As every American schoolboy knows, Finnegans Wake opens in mid-sentence with : 'riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from......

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`Foie Gras to the Sound of Trumpets . . BY PETER QUENNELL N N entertaining anthology, published some twenty years ago, was devoted to the ultimate, or penultimate, speeches of......