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What Cato Did, And Budgell

Andrew Gimson THE ILLUSTRATED ZULEIKA DOBSON by Max Beerbohm Yale University Press, £12.95 S . uicide, though still quite widely prac- tised, is no longer fashionable. It is......

The Isolation Of Dacre's Dozen

Eric Christiansen RENAISSANCE ESSAYS by Hugh Trevor-Roper Secker & Warburg, f15 istorical essays have gone downhill over the last century. As late as the Nineties they were......