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Second-generation Apprentice

Paul Ableman Delmore Schwartz: The Life of an American Poet J ames Atlas (Faber £8.25) In Dreams Begin Responsibilities and Other Stories Delmore Schwartz (Secker £4.90) 'He......

Conflicts

Geoffrey Marshall Liberals and Social Democrats Peter Clarke (Cambridge £10-.50) Mr Peter Clarke's enterprise is neither a biography of persons nor a close analysis of political......

Survivor

Alastair Forbes A European Past: Memoirs Prince Clary (Weidenfeld £8.95) After a fourth enchanted reading of Paddy Leigh-Fermor's A Time of Gifts, his epic account of an ephebic......