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Dukedom No Longer Large Enough

Dmitri Obolensky TREASURES OF THE BRITISH LIBRARY compiled by Nicolas Barker and the Curatorial Staff of the British Library The British Library, £25, pp.272 T he two-page......

Taking The Smooth With The Rough

Ruth Padel SELECTED POEMS by Hugo Williams OUP, £6.95, pp. 122 B eautifully mannered poems, dis- armingly rueful, English as a carol service, controlled as Savile Row: a......