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In Public

Pat Rogers The Social Milieu of Alexander Pope: Lives, Example and the Poetic Response Howard Erskine-Hill (Yale University Press £9.75) The call to devotion is a mysterious......

True Romance

Kenneth Griffith The French Colonel. Villebois-Mareui/ and the Boers, 1899-1900 Roy Macnab (Oxford £10.50) 'During September 1899 Jan Smuts, then a vetY youthful State Attorney......