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An Elizabethan Odd Couple

Caroline Moore FIREDRAKE'S EYE by Patricia Finney Sinclair-Stevenson, f14.95, pp. 263 I f the past is another country, its travel writers are either heavily encumbered with......

Unhappy In Their Country's Way

Francis King MOTHER RUSSIA by Bernice Rubens Chapman's, £14.99, pp. 443 T he genesis of this book — for some reason revealed neither on the title-page nor anywhere else — is a......