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A Giant With Certain Weaknesses

Frances Partridge FREUD: A LIFE FOR OUR TIME by Peter Gay J. M. Dent, £16.95, pp. 810 T he hero of this impressive and ex- tremely interesting biography is not so much a man as......

Stemmata Quid Faciunt?

Patrick Skene Catling ASTRIDE THE WALL: A MEMOIR, 1913-1945 by Ursula Wyndham Lennard, £12.95, pp. 192 U rsula Wyndham, the only daughter of the fifth Lord Leconfield, is a......