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Lord Of The Five Senses

Jane Gardam TENNYSON by Peter Levi Macmillan, £20, pp. 349 his study of Tennyson is the latest to be published to commemorate the cente- nary of his death in October, 1892, and......

What A Young Wife And A Good Brain May Do

Mark Archer XANTHIPPIC DIALOGUES by Ro g er Scruton Sinclair-Stevenson, £15.99, pp. 277 authority of an obscure American academ- professor's head, it is because his sallies......