17 MAY 1945, page 16

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A Literary Quartet Four Portraits : Studies of the Eighteenth Century. By Peter Quennell. (Collins. 12s. 6d.) THIS is a very agreeable exercise in the lighter form of popular......

Alas, Alas !

" ALL gone. Alas! Alas! " wrote Mrs. Percy Wyndham when h Wiltshire house, " Clouds," was burnt to the ground. Miss Olivier contemplating the leisured but active ladies of the......