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The Game Of The Name

Christopher Howse VERBATIM edited by Erin McKean Pimlico, £12.50, pp. 353, ISBN 0712645977 C onsider these American place names: Cheesequake, New Jersey; Jot 'Em Down, Texas;......

A Crossed Line In The Far East

Honor Clerk WATER LILY by Susanna Jones Picador, £15.99, pp. 294, ISBN 0330485822 1 n the 1980s when the yen and the museum world in Britain formed an unlikely alliance, I had......