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Teaching The Teachers

Kate Hubbard MAVIS BELFRAGE: A ROMANTIC NOVEL WITH FIVE SHORTER TALES by Alasdair Gray Bloomsbury, £13.99, pp. 158 T his is a small volume — a novella and five stories, which......

Irish Fields, London Drawing-rooms

Isabel Colegate A PECULIAR MAN: A LIFE OF GEORGE MOORE by Tony Gray Sinclair-Stevenson, f20, pp. 344 ghastly dinner supposed to be literary,' wrote Harold Nicolson is his diary......