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Village Schooling

O.R. McGregor Education in Rural England 1800-19 14 Pamela Horn (Gill and Macmillan £15) Many overseas visitors to the Great Exhibition of 1851 attended the Royal Agricultural......

Duchess

Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd The Face on the Sphinx Daphne Fielding (Hamish Hamilton £5.50) 'I never saw a girl with such beauty, such magnificent intelligence, such goodness and......

Lyricist

Benny Green The Street Where I Live Alan Jay Lemer (Hodder and Stoughton E6.50) Bookibecome indispensable for all sorts of reasons, some because they are masterworks, others......