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Storm In A Teacup?

Peter Ackroyd The Eye Of The Storm Patrick White (Cape £2.95) Even with a bank holiday weekend in which to read the dustjackets, a week which promises the publication of fifteen......

Squalor And Splendour

Marc Girouard The Victorian City, edited by H. J. Dyos and Michael Wolff, two volumes (Routledge and Kegan Paul E27,00) In . 1801, 80 per cent of the people of Great Britain......