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Institutional passion Raymond Carr Peculiar Privilege: A Social History of English Fox-hunting, 1753-1885 David C. ltzkowitz (Harvester Press £10.50) Embedded in the midst of......

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Richard Boston The Notable Man: The Life and Times of Oliver Goldsmith John Ginger (Hamish Hamilton £7.95) The doctors who murdered Byron were far from untypical, for the......