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Raphaelites' Post

Benny Green Dante Gabriel Rossetti and Jane Morris: Their Correspondence edited hY John Bryson and Janet Camp Troxell (Oxford University Press £7.50) Exactly how illicit was the......

Toughs

James Hughes-Onslow The Wives of Downing Street Kirsty McLeod (Collins £4.95) While her husband, suffering from madness and gout, was still Prime Minister, Lady Chatham was......

The Compleat Farmer

A compendium of do-it-yourself, tried and true practices for the farm, garden and household A mine of practical instruction on everything from growing and storing fruit and......

One Man And His Plot

MICHAEL LEA PM A N A funny, philosophical account of his struggle to turn a weed-strewn allotment in Brixton into a flourishing vegetable garden. Readers of The Times Diary will......

Strangers Devour The Land

BOYCE RICHARDSON A moving account of the Cree Indians' battle to preserve their way of life, threatened by the Q ue b e c government's plans to build hydroelectric dams which......

Napoleon's Last Journey

GILBERT MA RTINEA U Translated by Frances Partridge Describes the expedition which, 19 years after Napoleon's death in exile, was sent to St Helena to bring back his mortal......