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A Little Touch Of Larry On The Night?

Mark Amory YEAR OF THE KING by Antony Sher ChattolHogarth, £10.95 T he publishers have been lucky. Antony Sher had been approached to write and illustrate a book about his next......

A Warning Against Caesarism

Christopher Hitchens GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THE ENLIGHTENMENT by Garry Wills Robert Hale, £16.95 T he two most celebrated battle cries of the American revolution were Nathan......

Seeming

If things seem not to be as once they were Perhaps they are as once they seemed to be. C. H. Sisson......