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You Are Old, Father Enoch

A. N. Wilson ENOCH POWELL: COLLECTED POEMS Bellew Publishing, f9.95, pp. 198 W alter Hamilton, my old headmas- ter, always used to say that by far the cleverest man he ever......

How Is It Love Arises From The Heart And Then

torments the heart that bore it? Just think of rust and iron; rust's born from iron - What does it do but gnaw it . . . gnaw it? Bu'lfaraj (11th century) Translated from the......

A Novel About Ideas

Francis King HOPEFUL MONSTER by Nicholas Mosley Secker & Warburg, £14.95, pp. 551 T his novel, although self-contained, is apparently the last of a herd of jumbos corralled......