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The Long And The Short Of It

Laurence Lerner INTRODUCTION TO DICKENS by Peter Ackroyd Sinclair-Stevenson, £15.95, pp.177 L iterary biographers are naturally com- mitted to the view that an author's life......

God And The Atom

Tony Osman MICHAEL FARADAY: SANDEMANIAN AND SCIENTIST by Geoffrey Cantor Macmillan, f40, pp. 359 W e find science and religion uneasy companions. We remember Galileo, who was......