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John Beer On Criticism, Quotation And Impromptu Comment

Poetry towards Novel John Speirs (Faber £3.75) "The indivisibility of literature comes home to me more and more," muses Mr Speirs in a parenthesis towards the end of his book,......

Colin Wilson On Thriller Nostalgia

Snobbery With Violence Colin Watson (Eyre and Spottiswoode £2.50) At my bedside, within convenient reach, I keep a shelf-ful of those books about Sherlock Holmes — I mean the......