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The Lamps Shone O'er Brave Women

Christopher Hitchens XENIA — A MEMOIR, GREECE 1919-1949 by Mary Henderson Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £14.95 I n 1841 Sir Edmund Lyons, Her Britta- Inc Majesty's Minister in Athens,......

The Best Of All Possible Whirls

Adam Zamoyski FOURTEEN LETTERS: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY by Feliks Topolski Faber paperback, £30 T opolski does not really fit in any- where, as an artist or as a man. He is neither the......