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Reading For Pleasure

James Hughes-Onslow THE LIGHTING OF THE LAMPS by Susan Hill Hamish Hamilton, £12.95 H ow nice it must be to be a compul- sive writer and a successful one, earning a comfortable......

The Patron Saint Of Broadcasting

Anthony Holden MURROW: HIS LIFE AND TIMES by A. M. Sperber Michael Joseph, (17.95 A s recent events at the BBC prove all too vividly, it is an ill-disguised instinct of most......

La Belle Epoque

Queuing up outside the Musee d'Orsay You see a file of Continents in bronze Across from the Elephant and Monkey Already sporting sprayed-on purple loins. Australia there, with......