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Confined Between Hard Covers

Jeremy Lewis THE WIT OF THE SPECTATOR Edited by Christopher Howse Century, £12.95, pp. 224 F ew things are more off-putting than the self-proclaimedly humorous or witty — as......

Isolated In His Own Compelling Gaze

Michael De-la-Noy KEITH VAUGHAN JOURNALS 1939-1977 edited by Alan Ross John Murray, £17.95, pp.213 0 ne of the greatest pieces of confes- sional writing to emerge this century.'......