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An Elegant Sink Of Iniquity

Anthony Blond MACAO by Donald Pittis and Susan J. Henders OUP, £12.99, pp. 284 A weed from Catholic Europe, it took root Between the yellow mountains and the sea, And bore these......

A Bracing Swim In Words

P. J. Kavanagh THE NEW OXFORD BOOK OF ENGLISH PROSE edited by John Gross OUP, £25, pp. 1012 hen asked to review this book how could anyone 'review' a book that is itself a......