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Pooter Crossed With Wooster

Hugh Massingberd THE ADVENTURES OF MR THAKE by J. B. Morton Old Street Publishing £9.99, pp. 194, ISBN 1905847033 © £7.99 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 J. B. Morton, a bluff......

No Ladies' Man

w 6 alter Scott is unjust towards love., there is no force or i colour n his account of it, no energy. One can see that he has studied it in books and not in his own heart.'......