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The House That Charles Built

Anabel Ricketts THE BUILDING OF CASTLE HOWARD by Charles Saumarez-Smith Faber, f17.99, pp. 221 C ountry houses are big business these days and it is a struggle not to be over-......

Down There On A Fair-minded Visit

Alan Angell `SWEET WAIST OF AMERICA': JOURNEYS AROUND GUATEMALA by Anthony Daniels Hutchinson, £14.95, pp. 249 I n the closing pages of this book, the author asks, rather......