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Roaming Through Ranelagh

ENGLISH eighteenth-century memoirs are incom- parable, and too little known. Horace Walpole and James Boswell, superb as they are, have rivals. A year or two ago Romney Sidgwick......

Dangling

Stranger Within. By Sir Francis Oppenheim er (Faber, 42s.) SIR FRANCIS OPPENHEIMER, writing at niner Y ' cuts short his autobiography. Stranger With lr ,, i ' with apparent......