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Patrick Skene Catling The Best of Modern Humour Edited by Mordecai Richler (Allen Lane £10.95) T here are two seasons of the year when publishers offer books which are sup-......

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Defender of the Faith • Thomas Szasz Freud: The Assault on Truth: Freud's Suppression of the Seduction Theory Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (Faber & Faber £9.95) I n every society......