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The getting of wisdom Raymond Carr HOW TO READ AND WHY by Harold Bloom Fourth Estate, £15.99, pp. 283 arold Bloom is among the most revered and prolific of American critics.......

Seeing Evolution Through Unblinking Eyes

Philip MacCann TRILOBITE!: EYEWITNESS TO EVOLUTION by Richard Fortey HaiperCollins, £15.99, pp. 269 W ordsworth once attacked geologists for being boring. But 200 years later......