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A Balanced Performance

With A Feather On My Nose. By Billie Burke with Cameron Shipp. (Peter Davies. I 25. 6d.) THIS is a story without a beginning. As soon as Miss Billie Burke set foot upon the......

C4 Cardinal Of England 97

THE historian Fronde, who had no use for Pole, declared that " between us and the old English there lies a gulf of mystery. . . . They cannot come to us, and our imagination can......

Thackeray Unloved

Thackeray: A Reconsideration. By J. Y. T. Greig. (Geoffrey Cumberlege. tn. 6d.) THIS well-written, well-informed book is not a biography of Thackeray. We must carry on still......