When Dogs Do Praise Their Fleas
Robert Moss The Fellow Travellers David Caute (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £5.75) Fellow-travelling is less a passing fashion than a particular cast of mind. The symptoms of those......
Salutary Advice
Dick Davis Collected Poems Donald Davie (Routledge £3.75) When, in the last stanza of his Collected Poems, Donald Davie writes "Irony fails us " there is a reaction similar to......
Shorter Notices
The Austrian Achievement 1700-1800 Ernst Wangermann (Thames and Hudson £2.25) Published January 29 In this excellent and refreshingly concise study of the Hapsburg empire from......
Bookend
Bookbuyer Novels about the publishing trade are mostly set in. the United States, since not even the promiscuous imagination of a bestseller writer could weave lucrative......
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