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Where Be Your Gibes Now?

Victoria Glendinning THE LATE MRS DOROTHY PARKER by Leslie Frewin Sidgwick & Jackson, L14.95 D orothy Parker was 'America's wit- tiest woman'. Here is an example of her wit.......

The History Man

Noel Malcolm CLARENDON AND HIS FRIENDS by Richard 011ard Hamish Hamilton, T here is', as a disgruntled Whig historian observed in 1827, 'no character to which history has been......