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T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form, by Anthony Julius (Cambridge, 308 pp., $18.95)

AMAZING, the fuss an undistinguished book has caused. Its author, Anthony Julius, is a British lawyer with a British PhD in English. Cambridge University Press emitted it in 1995, to slim notices. It slept for some months. Then, BANG! and . . .Well, let a Sunday Independent writer sum up the “hot debate”:

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T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism, and Literary Form, by Anthony Julius (Cambridge, 308 pp., $18.95)

AMAZING, the fuss an undistinguished book has caused. Its author, Anthony Julius, is a British lawyer with a British PhD in English. Cambridge University Press emitted it in 1995, to slim notices. It slept for some months. Then, BANG! and . . .Well, let a Sunday Independent writer sum up the “hot debate”: