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Curiouser And Curiouser

William Trevor LEWIS CARROLL by Morton N. Cohen Macmillan, £25, pp. 562 I t is one of literature's most treasured tit- bits that Alice's underground adventures were originally......

In Quest Of The Mirage Of The Small Platoon

Samuel Brittan ACCOUNTABLE TO NONE: THE TORY NATIONALISATION OF BRITAIN by Simon Jenkins Hamish Hamilton, 16.99, pp. 304 A lthough the state spends in one way or another two......