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A Beginning, A Muddle And An End

Peter Quennell THE HUTCHINSON BOOK OF ESSAYS chosen and introduced by Frank Delaney Hutchinson, £24.95, pp. 550 M ontaigne, though he wrote in a spacious attic room under the......

Five Serious Limericks In Homage To Gilbert White Of...

The reverend naturalist is dumb on Jehovah and Christ: reads lessons on Swallows and Martins, their fellows, for the Joker is known by His Jest. In letters and notebooks he......

Discovering America Before Columbus

Mark Illis THE ICE-SHIRT by William T. Vollmann Deutsch, £13.95, pp.412 In olden times one Floxi from Sodor ex- claimed, upon first seeing Snaefellsness, `This must be a great......