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A Coup For English Letters

Auberon Waugh The Dilemma of Love Andrea Giovene (Collins E2.50) The doctrine of the Noble Savage has gone through some pretty strange mutations at the hands of novelists. It......

Sweet-meats For Opera-lovers

Richard Luckett The Opera Joseph Wechsberg (Weidenfeld and Nicolson £4.95) Grand Opera edited by Anthony Gishford (Weidenfeld and Nicolson e4.25) Both of these books are......