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Wit And Bandit C. M. Woodhouse The Diamond Of Lannina:

Ali Pasha, 1741- 1822 William Plomer (Cape 35s) So well worth while is it to issue a new edition of William Plomer's absorbing bio- graphy of All Pasha that one wonders why the......

Tu Quoque

HENRY TUBE A Fairly Honourable Defeat Iris Murdoch (Chatto and Windus 35s) In her first published book, a study of Sartre, iris Murdoch wrote: The novel, the novel proper that......

Born Loser

CHARLES STUART The Western Rising Charles Chenevix Trench (Longmans 50s) The career of Charles II's amiable bastard son, Monmouth, was at once purposeless and pathetic. He had......