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Arrested Pugnacity

Letters From Hilaire Belloc. Selected and edited by Robert Speaight. (Hollis and Carter, 30s.) HILAIRE BELLOC was a prolific prose-writer who found it very much easier to......

The Go-between

THE world is very unreasonable,' wrote Lord Sunderland in 1693, 'but since we cannot make it as one would wish, let us make the best of it as it is.' He certainly tried. Charles......