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How They Are Keeping Down On The Farm

Max Egremont THE SEARCH FOR A STYLE by John Cornforth Deutsch, £19.95, pp.263 THE ENGLISH COUNTRY ESTATE by John Martin Robinson Hutchinson, £16.95, pp.216 THE FIELD BOOK OF......

Shadow On The Snow

The old man wore a gown of morning light. Through silvery translucence and against Smooth ermine hiding wintry grass from sight He felt his scarecrow body, gaunt and flensed. He......

Books

The butchers' bills John Bayley THE PRICE OF ADMIRALTY by John Keegan Hutchinson, £14.95, pp.292 T erms which we trundle smoothly o'er our tongues', exclaimed Coleridge of the......