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Autumn Books

Alarums and the man Bevis Hillier BERNARD SHAW: VOLUME II 1898-1918 THE PURSUIT OF POWER by Michael Holroyd Chatto &Windus, £18, pp.422 0 ne of the few aspects of Shaw's life......

Here Comes Meddlesome Mattie

Anthony Howard FROM SHORE TO SHORE: THE TOUR DIARIES OF EARL MOUNTBA 1 - IEN OF BURMA 1953 - 1979 edited by Philip Ziegler Collins, £18, pp.388 W th the publication of this......