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Making A Spectacle Of Himself

Michael Davie DAME EDNA EVERAGE AND THE RISE OF WESTERN CIVILISATION: BACKSTAGE WITH BARRY HUMPHRIES by John Lahr Bloomsbury, £14.99, pp. 242 T he late A. J. Liebling of the New......

When Brazza Clasped The Hand Of Brother

Richard West THE SCRAMBLE FOR AFRICA by Thomas Pakenham Weidenfeld, £20, pp.738 A is an enemy of the slave trade, Samuel Johnson prayed each night that the Europeans would stay......