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Parnassian Fribbler

Horace Walpole. By Wilmarth Sheldon Lewis. (Hart-Davis, 63s.) No. That must, I think after all, be the proper answer to Horace Walpole—a literary no, in spite of everything, in......

Soul Of Gossip

Letters to a Friend, 1950-1952. By Rose Macaulay. (Collins, 25s.) THESE letters of Rose Macaulay's to Father Johnson, an Anglican priest, `posted' at the time to the Cowley......