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More White Mischief

James Fox Sam While's Paris: The Collected Despatches of a Newspaper Legend (New English Library £9.95) W hen Beaverbrook picked out Sam White's unusual talents in 1946, White......

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Dickens and his 'values' Richard West O ne of the joys of David Copperfield is the way that it loses nothing but ac- tually gains with familiarity. Whereas I used to allow......

Rome Found

R ome, the name excites me. Never have 1 known such concentrated happinesS Before or since. Nature flung wide her arms And art became another form of love. In Rome I found the......