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A Tale Of Three Cities

Denis Hills THE DOUBLE EAGLE: VIENNA, BUDAPEST AND PRAGUE by Stephen Brook Hamish Hamilton, £14.95, pp.336 I went to three cities, and found not only three urban personalities,......

Her Novels Now Are Ended?

Gabriele Annan LATECOMERS by Anita Brookner Cape, f10.95, pp.248 H artmann and Fibich meet at an English boarding school just before the war. Both are refugee orphans from Ger-......

A Place

When Mortal and Eternal mate, As in true love, there still must be A time, a place, something you see, A date, a prayer to listening Fate To sanctify some nondescript Tearoom,......