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His Pomposity

Verandah. Some Episodes in the Crown Colonies 1867 - 1889. By James Pope-Hennessy. (Allen and Unwin, 42s.) MR. POPE-HENNESSY has had the happy idea of evoking, through the......

Flight In The Dark

Straight forward seemed the only way to go. Skidding and pushing at the glass A blue tit bursting out of night Fought with the treacherous skin of light. Wild with the window......

The Age Of Johnson

IT is always difficult for Americans to realise that in most other parts of the world the 'problem of the South' would long ago have been solved by amputation. In the past 150......

B. B.

Sunset and Twilight : From the Diaries of 1947- 1958 of Bernard Berenson. Introduction by Iris Origo. Epilogue by Nicky Mariano. .(Hamish Hamilton, 42s.) The Bernard Berenson......