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Brief Cases

Tony Palmer The Company with the Heart of Gold Stuart Cloete (Collins, £1.80) A Ball of Malt and Madame Butterfly Benedict Kiely (Gollancz, £2.60) Very Personal Problems Paul......

Dong And Scholar Gipsy

Peter Ackroyd English Literature and Irish Politics Matthew Arnold (Volume IX of the Collected Prose Works) (University of Michigan Press £7.50) It is odd that Matthew Arnold......