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Teesdale

Walked up to the scar. Walked down to the beck. Walked on wet hay, on heather, On limestone, on spongy grass, Learning the shapes of tiniest lichen and rock plant, Marsh......

Byron's Table -talk

By PETElt QUENNELL MEIE fierce discussions recently stirred up by I Lord Moran's personal and clinical reminis- cences of Sir Winston Churchill were, at least from a......

Jehovah Time

The Victorians. By Joan Evans. (C.U.P., 55s.) As history rightly nudges its way into the social sciences, analytical and statistical methods re- place the apposite quotation,......

Patriots And Exiles

Selected Poems. By Karen Gershon. (Gollancz, 18s.) The Mind Has Mountains. By Elizabeth Jen- nings. (Macmillan, 18s.) The Colour of Cockcrowing. By T. H. Jones. (Hart-Davis,......