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The Primrose Path

Eric Christiansen THE CULTURE OF FLOWERS by Jack Goody Cambridge University Press, £40, £13.95, pp. 462 I t was towards the end of the seventh century AD when the Anglo-Saxon......

Shut Up And Deal

Ian Buruma THE END OF HONG KONG: THE SECRET DIPLOMACY OF IMPERIAL RETREAT by Robert Cottrell John Murray, f19.99, pp. 244 A part from a small purple patch — a mere fleck, really......