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Byronic

Gavin Ewart Choiseul and Talleyrand Charles Johnston (The Bodley Head £5.25) CharlCharl es Johnston now has four recent es of verse to his credit — Poems and Journeys (1979),......

Dockland Saint

A. N. Wilson W e still have riots from time to time in the poorer districts of London. And it is left to the liberal intelligence of Lord Scarman to devise euphemistic reasons......