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The Comic Muse

Auberon Waugh Into Your Bed I'll Creep Peter de Vries (Gollancz £2.00) The tragedy of the comic writer's condition is exactly the opposite of the clown's or stage comedian's.......

Grasping Nettl

Kenneth Minogue Imagination and Precision in the Social Sciences: Essays in Memory of Peter Nettl Edited by T. J. Nossiter, A. H. Hanson, Stein Rokkan (Faber £6.00) It has been......