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Devoted To A Fault

David Gilmour MARY CURZON by Nigel Nicolson Weidenfeld, £20, pp. 227 0 n seeing Mary Curzon in India in 1905, a young Englishman was so struck by this 'vision of loveliness'......

A Madly Competitive Business

Theodore Dalrymple MASTERS OF BEDLAM: THE TRANSFORMATION OF THE MAD-DOCTORING TRADE by Andrew Scull, Charlotte MacKenzie and Nicholas Hervey Princeton, £35, pp. 376 I t is......