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Books

A hen in the sunshine A. N. Wilson The Letters of Alfred Lord Tennyson I (18 21 - 1850) Edited by Cecil Y. Lang and Edgar F. Shannon Jr (Clarendon Press Oxford £17.50) 6 B reak......

A Clef

Alastair Forbes T his little collection of nouvelles Floren- tines plus ou moms a clef, is, like its delightful and distinguished author, some- thing of a curiosity. Its 'gentle......