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The Good Life And How It Is To Be Lived

Christopher Bray METAPHYSICS AS A GUIDE TO MORALS by Iris Murdoch Chatto, £20, pp. 520 F ans of the fictions of Dame Iris Murdoch should be warned that Meta- physics as a Guide......

Thank God!

The British journalist Alexander Chancellor THE POWER OF NEWS: THE HISTORY OF REUTERS by Donald Read OUP, £20, pp. 431 P aul Julius Reuter's first scoop, the one which set him......