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This Above All, To Thine Own Selves Be True

Marie-Alice de Beaumarchais A DOUBLE LIFE by Frederic Raphael Orion, £14.99, pp. 374 G uy de Roumegouse, the hero of this novel, is a Protestant of hobereau extrac- tion. A......

Into The Wild Blue, Slightly Boring, Yonder

Montagu Curzon WIDE-BODY: THE MAKING OF THE 747 by Clive Irving Hodder & Stoughton, f18.99, pp. 371 I t is greatly to be hoped that the title will not put off the female......