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Circumstance And Language

C. H. Sisson THE ENEMY'S COUNTRY: WORDS, CONTEXTURE, AND OTHER CIRCUMSTANCES OF LANGUAGE by Geoffrey Hill OUP, £19.95, pp. 153 M ontaigne had, from the age of 36 . . .......

School For Scandal

Harriet Waugh A PRIVATE PLACE by Amanda Craig Hutchinson, f13.99, pp. 246 A manda Craig's second novel A Pri- vate Place is set in a progressive co- educational school strongly......

Trouble With The Rates

John Grigg ODYSSEY OF AN EDWARDIAN LIBERAL: THE POLITICAL DIARY OF RICHARD DURNING HOLT edited by J. Dutton Rocord Society of Lancashire & Cheshire, £24.00, pp. 136 L loyd......