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Tantrums

Harriet Waugh Wanting Angela Huth (Harvill Press £8.95) Strange Loop Amanda Prantera (Cape £8.50) The Garden of Earthly Delights Lawson Davies (Michael Joseph £8.95) I ii her......

The Glowing Phoenix

Peter Quennell The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain Edited by Kenneth 0. Morgan (Oxford University Press £15) A full-scale history of any great country is apt to resemble......