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The Fatted Calf

Philippa Pufilar The Vegetable Passion Janet Barkas (Routledge and Kegan Paul £3.95) "Who can be more cruel and selfish than he who increases the flesh of his body by eating the......

Victoriana

Margaret Drabble England's Michelangelo Wilfrid Blunt (Ha mis - h Hamilton e8.50) Wilfrid Blunt's biography of "England's Michelangelo" makes it difficult to avoid the......