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Puppy Dogs' Tails

Frances Partridge FIRST CHILDHOOD by Lord Berners Weidenfeld, £12.99, pp. 233 hen I was asked to review this reissue of Lord Berners' record of his child- hood, my heart leaped......

Degrees Of Martyrdom

John Grigg OSCAR WILDE'S LAST CHANCE by Mark Hichens The Pentland Press, £18.50, pp. 204 T he case of Oscar Wilde and the Dreyfus case are both familiar stories. Millions of......

A Score Of Blessed Plots

Rosanna James IRISH GARDENS by Olda Fitzgerald Conran Octopus, f30, pp. 224 I find it hard to read descriptions of gar- dens. No sooner do I come across 'another winding path......