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The Party That Exploded

Sophia Watson AN ALMOST PERFECT GENT by Horace K. Kelland Wyrick & Co., $24.95, pp. 306 W ell, this is a funny one: a traditional rite-of-passage sort of a novel, the kind you......

Degrees Of Martyrdom

John Grigg OSCAR WILDE'S LAST CHANCE by Mark Hichens The Pentland Press, £18.50, pp. 204 T he case of Oscar Wilde and the Dreyfus case are both familiar stories. Millions of......