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Bright With Names That Men Remember

Peter Quennell PORTRAITS FROM LIFE by Edmund Gosse Scolar Press, £25, pp.200 I n his later years, Sir Edmund Gosse, once Librarian to the House of Lords, was evidently well......

Flights Of Fancy

Parviz Radji MAJESTIC FAILURE: THE FALL OF THE SHAH by Marvin Zonis University of Chicago Press, 129.95, pp.350 O t the mass of books that have appeared since the Iranian......