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Witchcraft

PENELOPE HOUSTON Titania Parmenia Migel (Michael Joseph 50s) There is a scene in Ingmar Bergman's Smiles of a Summer Night in which an old woman begins to tell a story.......

His Nibs

HENRY TUBE The new edition of Titus Groan, first published in 1946, is an occasion for celebration. Not that Mervyn Peake's great Gormenghast trilogy has ever been undervalued......

Shorter Notices

An Encyclopaedia of Parliament Norman Wilding and Philip Laundy (Cassell 84s). The third revised edition of this excellent parlia- mentary reference book claims to have been......