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High Coloratura

SACHEVERELL SITWELL Rossini Herbert Weinstock (oup 100s) It would be difficult to overpraise this new book on Rossini which is a model of its sort, and even better done than Mr......

British Foreign Policy Since Versailles, 1919- 1963 W. N....

(Methuen 45s) Lost horizons JOHN TERRAINE The Commonwealth Prime Ministers' Con- ference' has just broken up to the accompani- ment of Cynicism and execration louder than any......

A Singular Man

PETER FLEMING The Path of Glory: The Memoirs of John Shipp edited by C. J. Stranks (Chatto and Windus 42s) Fate could hardly have dealt a small boy a much weaker hand than John......