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The Blemishes Of King Edward's Private Life

Harold Acton THE KING IN LOVE: EDWARD VII'S MISTRESSES by Theo Aronson John Murray, £13.95, pp. 301 W hen I was an undergraduate mem- ber of the Oxford University Railway Club,......

Cuban Roots On The Mainland

Christopher Hitchens MIAMI by Joan Didion Weidenfeld & Nicolson, £12.95, pp. 238 T he other day at Johns Hopkins Uni- versity I found myself on a panel with one of the producers......

Church And Covenant

The kitschy statues bleed. This theatre of God Acts out a Latin poetry A heretic can't translate. I think of pitch pine pews A northern childhood knew. I wrestled with John Knox......