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Obliging The Nobility

Mark Archer COUTTS AND CO, 1692-1992: THE PORTRAIT OF A PRIVATE BANK by Edna Healey John Curtisl Hodder & Stoughton, £25, pp. 488 P erhaps Pascal had bankers in mind when he......

. . . And Petrol Fumes

Gavin Stamp A NEW LONDON by Richard Rogers and Mark Fisher Penguin, £8.99, pp. 255 London has to change. For centuries it has been one of the world's great capitals. It is in......

Choked By Gas . . .

Teresa Waugh FIELDS OF GLORY by Jean Rouaud, translated by Ralph Manheim Harvill, £13.99, pp. 160 R eading Fields of Glory, Jean Rouaud's Goncourt Prize-winning novel, is rather......