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The Unvarnished Picture

Hugh Massingberd 'THE UNEXPURGATED BEATON introduced by Hugo Vickers Weidenfeki, £25, pp. 418. ISBN 0297645994 W hat-ho,' says an Excess sub-editor appreciatively as Simon......

An Intolerant Sort Of Liberal

Digby Anderson JOHN HENRY NEWMAN: THE CHALLENGE TO EVANGELICAL RELIGION by Frank M. Turner Yale, £25, pp. 740. ISBN 0300092512 I n 1845 Newman was received into the Roman......

Lingerings Of The Cheshire Cat

Turner's pubic studies still troubling Ruskin's heart; That second-best bed of type. Ann Hathaway's Sure Start; Tell them in Lacedaemon we forgot to bring our cameras; Fish......