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Musica Nostra

Alfred Alexander The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians Stanley Sadie (ed.) (Macmillan 20 vols., £850) When Grove's Dictionary of Music and Musicians in four volumes......

Fiction

Rude farceur A . N. Wilson A Good Man in Africa William Boyd (Hamish Hamilton pp. 264, f6:95) Having almost no sense of humour, I have never seen what was wrong with the......