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Generous To A Fault

Miranda France ALFRED MAUDS LAY AND THE MAYA by Ian Graham The British Museum Press, £29.99, pp. 323, ISBN 071412561X L atin America's most highly developed pre-Conquest......

Fish On A Bicycle

Hugh Massingberd THE BISHOPS by Trevor Beeson SCM, £19.95, pp. 248, ISBN 0334028671 A book about dead bishops by a retired dean from a religious press might not sound the sort......