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Getting The Point

Christopher Howse THE SPECTATOR BOOK OF EPIGRAMS edited by Dhiren Bhagat Pan, f5.99, pp. 266 I n our impatient age it is time for the epigram to make a comeback, but as Sir......

Books

Supplying a needed poet James Buchan THE ERN MALLEY AFFAIR by Michael Heyward Faber, f15.99, pp. 284 L iterary hoaxes succeed because people want them to. Eighteenth-century......