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Dizzy Vagans

David Williams Disraeli's Grand Tour Benjamin Disraeli and the Holy Land 1830-31. Robert Blake. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £8.95) A s a writer Disraeli began early (twenty or so)......

Inside

Paul Ableman In the Belly of the Beast Jack Henry Abbott (Hutchinson £6.95) T hey did appalling things to Jack Henry_ A Abbott. Simple incarceration cause' him acute......

Unimpressive Bampton Lectures

J. Enoch Powell Jesus and the Constraints of History A. E. H arvey (Duckworth £7.50) T he 1980 Bampton Lectures, edited as a book, are a new essay in that 'search for the......