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Fallen Fames And Shabby Abbeys Books

BARRY HUMPHRIES It was in an old and sombrous bookshop in the purlieux of the city of Melbourne that 1 bought, for a few cents, my first gothick novel. The One-handed Monk by......

Hobbies Revived

AUBERON WAUGH The Black Art Rollo Ahmed (Jarrolds 32s 6d) Bertrand de Jouvenel, whose hobby it is to pre- dict the future by rational means—avoiding, as much as possible, such......

Curious Quest

PATRICK ANDERSON Mr Frank Baker is a romantic, which means that he has a considerable ego, is subject to neurotic confusion and guilt, and casts a visionary light not only......