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The W. C. Fields Of English Literature

Roger Lewis THE AMIS COLLECTION: SELECiED NON-FICTION 1954-1990 by Kingsley Amis Hutchinson, £16.99, pp.400 C riticism, being a declaration of taste, may be the most......

Marred By Reticence

Piers Paul Read REMINISCENCES AND REFLECTIONS: GROWING UP IN GERMANY by Golo Mann Faber, 125, pp. 338 I n 1933, when Hitler came to power, Thomas Mann, lecturing abroad, deemed......