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A Man Of Many Parts

Mark Archer JOHN EVELYN: LIVING FOR INGENUITY by Gillian Darley Yale, £25, pp. 382, ISBN 0300112270 © £20 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429 6655 Until the publication of his Diaries in......

Mr Facing- Both- Ways

Frederic Raphael THE BISEXUALITY OF DANIEL DEFOE by Leo Abse Kamac Books, £19.99, pp. 308, ISBN 1855754568 The classical scholar T. P. Wiseman decided that, once he had passed......