15 MAY 2004, page 66

Truly Heroic Couplets

Peter Porter GEORGE CRABBE: AN ENGLISH LIFE, 1754-1832 by Neill Powell Pimlico, .i12.50, pp. 373, ISBN 0712684990 A mid the enmities of contemporary letters, it's salutary to......

Trading On A Famous Name

Theo Richmond THE MYSTERY OF OLGA CHEKHOVA by Antony Beevor Viking £16.99, pp. 300, ISBN 0670915203 \v as Hitler's favourite actress a Russian spy? asks the publisher's 'shout......