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Monkey Tricks

John Lehmann Lord Rochester's Monkey Graham Greene (Bodley Head £5.00) "Lord Dorset and Lord Rochester," Pope observed, "should be considered as holiday writers, as gentlemen......

An Older Aldous

Francis King .1dous Huxley Volume Two Sybille Bedford (Chatto/Collins £4.50) There is a great deal of sadness in this second volume of Sybille Bedford's beautifully composed......