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Books

Take him for all in all Norman Lebrecht BERLIOZ, VOLUME II by David Cairns Allen Lane, £25, pp, 895 B it of a misfit, Berlioz. Not so much in character, which was a good deal......

Nice Guys Don't Always Finish Last

Daniel Hannan LINCOLN by Jan Morris Viking, £19.99, pp. 216 H ere is a little jewel-box of a book, not so much a biography as an exercise in trav- el writing decorated with......