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Going Down The Tubes

Christopher Hudson POEMS ON THE UNDERGROUND edited by Gerard Benson, Judith Cherniak and Cicely Herbert Cassell, £5.99, pp. 188 E arth has not anything to show less fair than 9......

A Frontier Settlement At Heart

Raymond Asquith KIEV: A PORTRAIT, 1800-1917 by Michael F. Hamm Princeton University Press, £21.95, pp. 304 K iev has been to Russia as Jerusalem to the Crusaders, a source and......