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Alice In Lonelyland

Kay Dick Staying on Alone: Letters of Alice B. Toklas Edited by Edward Burns. (Angus and Robertson £4.50) Gertrude Stein died in 1946, leaving behind her dearest friend and life......

Under The Dome

A.L. Rowse That Noble Cabinet. A History of the British Museum Edward Miller (Andre Deutsch. £4.80) I have never been — unlike so many of the eminent — an habitué of the BM, as......

Elizabethan

magic Richard Luckett Simon Forman: Sex and Society in Shakespeare's Age A. L. Rowse (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £4.50) A. L. Rowse's latest book is essential reading for anyone......