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The Last True Hacks

Alan Watkins e Rise and Fall of the Political Press in Britain Stephen Koss lh (Hamish Hamilton L25) P rofessor Koss is one of those American a cademics who acquire an interest......

Faint Receding Whistle

Peter Quennell Henry James: Letters Volume IV Edited by Leon Edel (Harvard University Press £25.50) D uring his later years, as an acknow- ledged Old Master, Henry James was the......