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The Conformist's Crowning Glory

Patrick Skene Catling THE MAN IN THE BOWLER HAT: HIS HISTORY AND ICONOGRAPHY by Fred Miller Robinson University of North Carolina Press, £18.50, pp. 198 O rwell was the prime......

Poor Players That Strut And Fret Their Hour Upon The

court William Scammell LADIES OF THE COURT by Michael Mewshaw Little, Brown, f I 5 95, pp. 327 OPEN TENNIS by Richard Evans Bloomsbury, f18 99, pp. 264 AGASSI by Robert Philip......

Appearances

Round my kitchen window, spiders compete like Joneses — they put up fancy curtains and tassel them with soft beads wrapped in silk; they sit in their front rooms, to be admired.......