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Lost Romantic

PATRICK ANDERSON The Journals of Claire Clairmont 1814- 1827 edited by Marion Kingston Stocking (Harvard/our 95s) In the summer of 1814 two young girls ran away from their home......

Good Stuff

PAT BARR Of Islands and Men: Studies in Pacific History H. E. Maude (oue 100s) This unusual and stimulating collection of essays is happily crammed with the real `stuff' of......