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Portrait Of The Week

T owards the end of the new Conservative government's first session the Tories received a bad fright in the by-election for Lord Whitelaw's old seat of Penrith and the Border,......

Books Wanted

HELIOGABALUS by Louis Coperius and 'At Century's Ebb' by Cyprian Cope. Barry Hum- phries, Garrick Club, Garrick Street, London W 1 . DICTIONARY OF THOUGHT (Tryon Ed- wards 1890,......