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Books

Ill-tempered and queer? Alan Bell THAT SINGULAR PERSON CALLED LEAR by Susan Chitty Weidenfeld, £16.95, pp. 305 Denise Harvey & Co., f40, pp. 245 EDWARD LEAR'S TENNYSON by Ruth......

His Own Finest Invention

Byron Rogers IN-FOR-A-PENNY: THE UNAUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY OF JEFFREY ARCHER by Jonathan Mantle Hamish Hamilton, £11.95, pp.264 T he American senator Daniel Moyni- han had this to......

Bright From Oblivion

Dawn, as the shadows slink away, Squints at the opening of day And there where night and silence were The sun comes up and small winds stir. A man lay still and that was all And......