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Is A Rose A Rose?

A pig under a tree in the Peloponnese Is a pig under a tree . . . But add to these Facts of zoology, botany, geography, A south wind, fulvous evening light, you, me, Fecundity......

Evolution Of A Daffodil

Roy Fuller TENNYSON'S 'MAUD': A DEFINITIVE EDITION edited by Susan Shatto The Athlone Press, 125 T his may seem a curious book to be recommending to the general reader. The text......

Talking Of Gladstone. .

Brian Masters A TANGLED WEB: SEX SCANDALS IN BRITISH POLITICS AND SOCIETY by H. Montgomery Hyde Constable, f12.95 SCANDAL by Colin Wilson and Donald Seaman Weidenfeld, f12.95 0......