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Going Down The Tubes

Christopher Hudson POEMS ON THE UNDERGROUND edited by Gerard Benson, Judith Cherniak and Cicely Herbert Cassell, £5.99, pp. 188 E arth has not anything to show less fair than 9......

Gospel Of Uplift Ruins The Cult Of Friendship

P. N. Furbank ANGLO-INDIAN ATTITUDES: THE MIND OF THE INDIAN CIVIL SERVICE by Clive Dewey Hambledon Press, f25, pp. 292 T his admirable book arose from a long- delayed stroke of......

The Bat

It was flapping and banging round, a huge black moth circling the light — no, amazingly, not banging, never hitting, skittering far out by walls and cupboards. Suddenly it......