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You Were Funny Like Us; Your Gift Survived It All

Stephen Spender JUVENILIA by W. H. Auden Faber, £25, pp. 320 A uden had some kind of inbuilt mental clock which, every moment of the day, told him what he should be doing or not......

Here We Go Round The Prickly Pairs

Anita Brookner VARIOUS MIRACLES by Carol Shields Fourth Estate, £9.99, pp. 243 C anadians travel well. In Paris they speak the French learned, perhaps, in Montreal, wear......