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Summer Books

Politics and other passions Michael Foot Stendhal and the Age of Napoleon Gita May (Columbia UP £10.50) Stendhal and the Age of Napoleon does not fulfil the expectations roused......

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Alastair Forbes Lady Sackville Susan Mary Alsop (Weidenfeld £6.95) Revisiting Knole one recent meteorologically magical day, I found it little changed from my first boyhood......