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Sage As Codfish

JOHN McMANNERS wire Theodore Besterman (Longmans 85s) In March 1755, Voltaire thought that he ad at last found a home. Two years earlier e had fled from the vampire patronage of......

Gay Abandon

PATRICK ANDERSON An Impersonation of Angels: A Biography of lean Cocteau Frederick Brown (Longman 60s) `I am a lie who tells the truth.' Aphoristic and paradoxical, this......