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Black As Black Can Be

CHARLES STUART The Fox-North Coalition John Cannon (am 65s) The political crisis of 1782-84, which ended the first phase of George III's reign, laun- ched Pitt on his long......

Books Donne As He Would Be Done By

MARTIN SEYMOUR-SMITH The notion that Donne is a twentieth-cen- tury rediscovery, the result of T. S. Eliot's acumen, is hardly accurate, although at one time it had wide......

Jolly Good Fellow

NIGEL NICOLSON Memoirs, 1885-1967 Andre Maurois translated by Denver Lindley (Bodley Head 63s) 'A biographer has no right to invent either a fact or a speech, but he might and......