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The Hardest Thing Of All

Carole Angier EDITH'S BOOK by Edith Velmans Viking £14.99, pp. 240 D o we need another Holocaust mem- oir? Yes, we do. It's like asking if we need another love story. This......

Casting A Lazy Spell

Julian Mitchell FRIENDS AND APOSTLES: THE CORRESPONDENCE OF RUPERT BROOKE AND JAMES STRACHEY, 1905-1914 edited by Keith Hale Yale, £19.95, pp. 287 by are people still interested......

Clerihew Corner

`I drink and I pun,' cried Charles Lamb, `And being the dog that I am, I relish this juicy Beaune!' Silence. Then a general groan. James Michie......