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How The West Was Shot

Philip French SILVER LIGHT by David Thomson Deutsch, £12.95, pp.333 D avid Thomson was educated at Dul- wich College, the alma mater of P. G. Wodehouse, C. S. Forester and......

Remorseless Hygienic Despotism

Eric Christiansen A HISTORY OF ALCOHOLISM by Jean-Charles Sournia Blackwell, £25, pp. 232 A lcoholism is not as old as you might think, walking round the museums and noting......

A Glorious New Experience

Alethea Hayter NEGLECTED GENIUS: THE DIARIES OF BENJAMIN HAYDON edited by John JolWe, Hutchinson, £19.99, pp.250 W hile the whole world seems adverse to desert', Wordsworth......