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Watched From The Shadows And By Mama

Peter Quennell MEMOIRS OF MADAME DE LA TOUR DU PIN edited and translated by Felice Harcourt Century Publishing, f6.95 IMPERIAL MOTHER, ROYAL DAUGHTER: THE CORRESPONDENCE OF •......

Laughter In The Next Ward

Brian Martin MEMOIRS OF MANY IN ONE by Alex Xenophon Demirjian Gray, edited by Patrick White Cape, £8.95 T he sick and senile hold a grisly fas- cination for Patrick White. In......