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Getting Into Someone's Bad Books
John Whitworth 0 f course we all know about Litera- ture and how it is aistinguished from mere books. Literature is the stuff that improves you, whereas books simply pass the......
Not A Blockhead But Writing For Nothing
Alan Bell THE LETTERS OF SAMUEL JOHNSON edited by Bruce Redford OUP, three volumes, £25 per volume, pp. 431, 385, 399 S amuel Johnson's letters were last collected 40 years ago,......
Speaking With Forked Tongue
James Teacher THE EDUCATION OF LITTLE TREE by Forrest Carter Rider, £14.99, pp. 231 h e Education of Little Tree is a captivat- ing chronicle of a Cherokee childhood spent in......