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Why Did He Leave Out E. M. Forster?

Bevis Hillier THE PENGUIN BOOK OF TWENTIETH CENTURY ESSAYS selected by Ian Hamilton Allen Lane, £20, pp. 555 I agreed, by telephone, to review this book, and before it arrived......

Public Policy And Private Feeling

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