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Books

A paradoxical fellow Alan Wall G. K. CHESTERTON, COLLECTED WORKS: VOLUME X COLLECTED POETRY PART 1 edited by Aidan Mackey Ignatius Press, San Francisco, £34.95, £21.95, pp. 596......

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Stephen Dunstan ALL THE TROUBLE IN THE WORLD by P. J. O'Rourke Picador, £14.99, pp. 368 H umour is notoriously relative. Differ- ent cultures, different ages of man and dif-......