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Little Victims
Poor Monkey: The Child in Literature. By Peter Coveney. (Rockliff, 30s.) MANY of the changes we regard as character- istic of nineteenth-century social life had already begun to......
Stone Dead
The Living Past. By Ivar Lissner. (Cape, 42s.) 'LIFE is so short,' says the author of this well- illustrated, well-produced but unfortunate book, 'that we should make the most......
Grotesque Ballet
The Bombs of Orsini. By Michael St. John Packe. (Seeker and Warburg, 25s.) THE Carbonari, the most notable of the secret societies which maintained the idea of Italian......
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