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Manners Elevated To A High Art

Caroline Moorehead T HE A GE OF C ONVERSATION by Benedetta Craveri, translated by Teresa Waugh New York Review of Books, £17.99, pp. 475, ISBN 1590171411 ✆ £14.39 (plus £2.45......

A Man In A Million

M. R. D. Foot T HE G REAT D OMINION : W INSTON C HURCHILL IN CANADA by David Dilks Thomas Allen & Son Ltd, Toronto, £20, pp. 472, ISBN 0887621627 ✆ £16 (plus £2.45 p&p) 0870 429......