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When The Upper Classes Had Still The Upper Hand

David Cannadine COUNTRY HOUSE LIFE: FAMILY AND SERVANTS, 1815-1914 by Jessica Gerard Blackwell, £25, pp.384 A ccording to both John Major and Tony Blair, the big idea for the......

Maturing Late Or Simply Rotted Early?

Frank Kermode CANDY IS DANDY: THE BEST OF OGDEN NASH selected by Linen Smith and Isabel Eberstadt Deutsch, £9.99, pp.407 I try to imitate him here, but he is probably quite......