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The Shade Of That Which Once Was Great

David Pryce-Jones SHADE THOSE LAURELS by Cyril Connolly and Peter Levi Bellew, £12.95, pp. 180 S hade Those Laurels has a greenhouse effect all its own. Under its warmth and......

Books

The defence of the gift James Buchan VLADIMIR NABOKOV: THE RUSSIAN YEARS by Brian Boyd Chatto & Windus, £20, pp. 607 P ersons tending to pessimism about our turbulent century......