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Of Rats And Men

Andro Linklater THE SOCIAL ANIMAL by W. G. Runciman HarperCollins, £14.99, pp. 230 even years ago, Lord Runciman was awarded the ultimate accolade of Great- ness and Goodness,......

Hard Labour In Hard Covers

Tony Gould LIT ED by Anthony Curtis Carcanet, £25, pp. 374 I was literary editor or, as we called it, books editor on, first, New Society and then the amalgamated New Statesman......