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Tout Ca Change

A. L. Rowse Fortune and Men's Eyes: The Career of J. P. Collier Dewey Ganzel (Oxford University Press £15) J . P. Collier was probably the foremos t Elizabethan and......

Golden Shreds

Arthur Marshall The Oxford Book of Aphorisms Chosen by John Gross (0.U.P. £9.50) O ne does rather wonder to what extent the creators, or composers, or coiners e , r aphorisms......