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The Consequences Of A Stroll

Anita Brookner J ust occasionally I want to read a novel in which the tone is measured and courte- ous, the protagonists equally so, the story well researched and believable,......

Dirty Tricks Among The Birch Woods

Douglas Hurd ARCHANGEL by Robert Harris Hutchinson, £16.99, pp. 432 They listened on the radio to the news at ten o'clock. The Communists and the National- ists in the Lower......

Clerihew Corner

As a Petersburg party trick, Nabokov Used to pull one sock off, Then slowly, using only his teeth, put The sock back on the foot. James Michie......