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Eminent Before Victoria

Raymond Carr BLACK TOM by Terence Copley Continuum, £20, pp. 299. ISBN 0826457231 T homas Arnold is remembered, if at all, as the great headmaster of Thomas Hughes's......

Women Talking To Women

Anita Brookner UNLESS by Carol Shields Fourth Estate, £16.99, pp. 213, ISBN 0007137702 I t is hard to describe what makes this resolutely old-fashioned novel so beguiling. Even......