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The Don In Grub Street

Stephen Logan THE USES OF ERROR by Frank Kermode Collins, £18, pp. 432 F ees for literary journalism have drop- ped and it is no longer possible to earn a living by doing it......

The View From Cookham

Bryan Robertson STANLEY SPENCER: A BIOGRAPHY by Kenneth Pople Collins, £25, pp. 576 T he life and work of Stanley Spencer, who died in 1959, must have served as an almost......