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Books

Laudator temporis acti Philip Hensher COMING HOME by John Betjeman, edited by Candida Lycett-Green Methuen, £20, pp.537 B etjeman's letters, which have been issued in a......

Plodding Through China

Philip Glazebrook THE CITY OF LIGHT by Jacob d'Ancona, translated and edited by David Selbourne Little, Brown and Co., £22,50, pp. 231 T he desire for gain conquers the greatest......