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Travelling Too Light

Allan Massie SO FAR FROM GOD by Patrick Marnham Cape, 0.95 SUNRISE WITH SEAMONSTERS by Paul Theroux Hamish Hamilton, £12.50 T here is something pretty depressing about travel......

Contents Of A Large Wainscot Chest

Peter Quennell HORACE WALPOLE'S MEMOIRS Edited by John Brooke Yale, 3 vols, f65 W hereas some men remain childish all their lives, others appear to become middle-aged in spirit......

The Possible

In meadow grass the crickets call for mates. Their high, insistent bowing scores the air, and like the keenest scores, it orchestrates a mood. The moonless night displays a rare......