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The Prince Of Lightness

Jonathan Cecil SEVEN MEN AND TWO OTHERS by Max Beerbohm Prion, £8.99, pp. 233, ISBN 1853754153 I n his old age, Max Beerbohm described how he had recently reread one or two of......

In The Beginning And At The End Was The Word

Alberto Manguel MAKING THE ALPHABET DANCE by Ross Eekler Macmillan, 118.99, pp.299, ISBN 033 39 03 34X C hristopher Columbus, on one of his four voyages to the place he thought......