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The Glorious Eleventh

Christopher Hudson ALL THERE IS TO KNOW: A SELECTION FROM THE ELEVENTH EDITION OF THE ENCYCLOPAEDIA BRITANNICA edited by Alexander Coleman and Charles Simmons Deutsch, f20, pp.......

Facing The Facts Of Life

Albert Read THEY WHISPER by Robert Olen Butler Secker, f14.99, pp. 329 W hen a novel promises it will `unflinchingly and lyrically address the sub- ject of modern......