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When You Get That Mood Indigo

Brian Masters THE FABER BOOK OF BLUE VERSE edited by John Whitworth Faber, £14.99, pp. 224 I t was Walpole who said that he always talked bawdy after dinner, because then......

Talking To Men About Women

Francis Wheen SINGULAR ENCOUNTERS by Naim Attallah Quartet, f15, pp. 628 L ong before the phrase 'positive discri- mination' had been coined, the owner of Quartet Books, Naim......