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Minor Key

Olivia Manning Try Anything Once Raymond Mortimer (Hamish Hamilton £6.95) I doubt whether Raymond Mortimer's friends did him much service when they persuaded him to reprint......

Bearing Witness

Ronald Hingley Akhmatova: A Poetic Pilgrimage Amanda Haight (Oxford University Press £5.50) As more and more information becomes available on the Soviet period of Russian......

And Music, Too

Anthony Burgess Essays from the World of Music and More Essays from the World of Mus ic , Ernest Newman (John Calder £6.50 an u £7.50) A literary education teaches you nothing......