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The Beauty Of Signal-boxes

I. K. Gricer BRITAIN'S HISTORIC RAILWAY BUILDINGS by Gordon Biddle Oxford University Press, £60, pp. 798, ISBN 0198662475 T he Duke of Bedford insisted that railway stations......

Dubious Goddesses In Human Form

Carole Angler THE LIVES OF THE MUSES by Francine Prose Aunan,f16.99, pp. 416, ISBN 1854109448 T his is a fascinating subject, and often a fascinating book. But much of The Lives......