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Keeping Up The Banter

Philip Glazeb rook IN XANADU by William Dalrymple E14.95, pp.310 I t is disappointing that no voice express- ing the feelings and viewpoint of their generation has made itself......

Faith Of A Drunkard

Lucy Hughes-Hallett THE LEGEND OF THE HOLY DRINKER by Joseph Roth Chatto & Windus, £7.95, pp. 49 J oseph Roth died in Paris in May 1939. One who drinks himself to death at the......