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Mrs Cross

Peter Ackroyd Johnnie Cross Terence de Vere White (Gollancz £7.95) john Walter Cross married George E it° . 1 J just eight months before her death; ta r his Life of George Eliot......

Clerihews

Christopher Hawtree Other People's Clerihews Chosen by Gavin Ewart (Oxford University Press £5.95) T t has long been received wisdom that the best Clerihews were written by......