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Lost Labour Love

Robert Blake A SINGULAR MARRIAGE: A LABOUR LOVE STORY IN LETTERS AND DIARIES, RAMSAY AND MARGARET MACDONALD edited by Jane Cox Harrap, £14.95, pp.386 R amsay MacDonald has had a......

The Mind Of Man

The mind of man is nothing but A repertoire of what is not, Never was, and can never be: So, at least, it is with me. C. H. Sisson......

Misplaced Confidence Of A Storyteller

Roger Lewis THE TIDEWATER TALES by John Barth Methuen, £12.95, pp.655 h e style of our own time tends towards succinctness: Beckett's ever-diminishing fictions; Borges's short......