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Thou Wast Not Born For Death, Immortal Bird!

Jane Ridley FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, AVENGING ANGEL by Hugh Small Constable, £18.99, pp. 221 H istory has not been kind to Florence Nightingale. Ever since Lytton Strachey......

The Way We Live Now

Anita Brookner BIRDS OF AMERICA by Lorrie Moore Faber, £9.99, pp. 291 I n Hollywood films of the late 1940s and 1950s there was always a substantial role for the heroine's......

Bridging The Culture Gap

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