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Mist And Matins

Aidan Carl Mathews Celtic Dawn: A Portrait of the Irish Literary Renaissance Ulick O'Connor (Hamish Hamilton £12.95) Y eats liked to think of his cronies as Olympians, not least......

The Earth Mother

Fitzroy Maclean Moscow: A Traveller's Companion Laurence Kelly (Constable £9.95) Among the Russians Colin Thubron (Heinemann £8.95) 'Th• ussia' wrote Maurice Baring from .1\......