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This Upright, Long-lived Anachronism

James Hamilton SIR JOHN TENNIEL: ALICE'S WHITE KNIGHT by Rodney Engen Scolar Press, £37.50, pp. 232 J ohn Tenniel — born five years after Waterloo, died five months before the......

The Difficulty Of Shuffling Off

Peter Black FINAL EXIT by Derek Humphry Hemlock Society, USA, $25, pp. 192,available in the UK through bookshops at £12.95 I t is against the law in Britain to publish detailed......

Black Monday

from the diary of a country squire feeling cut off from society Book read; rook fed; cook said: Look! Head for town or drown in gin! Christopher Pilling......