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Scuffles And Panics

Battles of the '45. By Katherine Tomasson and Francis Buist. (Batsford, 25s.) As a confirmed anti-Jacobite and an unrepen- tant Englishman, I have never been able to share in......

Powers Of Fiction

A Bachelor's Children. By Hal Porter. (Angus and Robertson, 18s.) PARTY politics in Australia are as rewarding a field for the novelist-exposer as anywhere else. And the......