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The Cockney's Homer BY KINGSLEY AMIS Dickens gone! The 'Spectator' says he beat Shake- speare at his best, and instances Mrs. Gamp as superior to Juliet's nurse. This in a......

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KENYA'S OPPORTUNITY. By Lord Altrincham. (Faber, 25s.) 'MEMORIES, hopes and ideas' is how the late Lord Altrincham described this book. Written almost twenty-five years after......