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The Mystique Of Ping-pong

Gerald Jacobs THE MIGHTY WALZER by Howard Jacobson Cape, £15.99, pp.388 his book challenges two pieces of con- ventional wisdom about Jews. One is that they are hopeless at......

Books

Before the lamps went out Ian Ousby SPLENDID ISOLATION? BRITAIN AND THE BALANCE OF POWER, 1874-1914 by John Charmley Hodder, £25, pp. 518 A weighty item in Churchill's attack on......