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From: The Spectator
Date: 19970823
Author:Barrow, Andrew

THE DOCTOR, THE DETECTIVE AND ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE

by Martin Booth

Hodder, 20, pp. 371

PLAYING THE GAME: A BIOGRAPHY OF SIR HENRY

NEWBOLT

by Susan Chitty Quartet, 25, pp. 296

Arthur Conan Doyle and Henry Newbolt were both born in mid-Victorian times and both lived on until the 1930s. They were both highly successful, popular, fiercely patriotic writers. Both were knighted. Both had rather irregular private lives. Both had Gillon Aitken - I mean A. P. Watt - as a literary agent.

I could go on making comparisons, spotting similarities between these two great literary lions - both, by the ...

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