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A Shameless Charmer
Noel Annan DUNCAN GRANT by Frances Spalding Chatto, £25, pp. 570 THERE'S THE LIGHTHOUSE: A BIOGRAPHY OF ADRIAN STEPHEN by Jean MacGibbon James & James, £10, pp. 187 W ith aching......
Neither Ancient Nor Modern
P. J. Kavanagh ABIDE WITH ME: THE WORLD OF VICTORIAN HYMNS by Ian Bradley SCM Press, £.30, pp. 299 A t Laurie Lee's Gloucestershire funer- al last month the first hymn was 'The......