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Wild Goose Chase

Christopher Hawtree Brilliant Creatures Clive James (Jonathan Cape £7.95) O ne can picture the scene when the type- script of this book arrived on the desk of Cape's reader.......

The Apocryphal M. R. James

Bryan Appleyard M. R. James: An Informal Portrait Michael Cox (Oxford £14.50) H e died, according to Cox, just as the Nunc Dimittis was being sung in the Chapel it Eton. If they......