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Things Past

Rosemary Pavey Destiny Obscure: Autobiographies o f Childhood, Education and Family from the 1820s to the 1920s Edited and Introduced by John Burnett (Allen Lane £9.50) D im......

Dead Souls

Alan Bookbinder USSR: Secrets of a Corrupt Society Konstantin Simis (Dent £8.95) I f a Russian wants to show you how short- ages, inefficiency and corruption are crippling the......