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Babbled Of Green Fields

Michael Bentley THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE BRITISH ARISTOCRACY by David Cannadine Yale, f19.95, pp. 813 I n the last two decades of Queen Victor- ia's reign the British......

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Simon Courtauld THE THORNS OF MEMORY by Peter Kemp Sinclair-Stevenson, f16.95, pp. 376 ONE MAN IN HIS TIME by Xan Fielding Macmillan, £17.99, pp.222 P eter Kemp's friends and......