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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,......

Fishing For More Than Complements

Patrick Skene Catling MEN'S LIVES by Peter Matthiessen Collins Harvill, £15, pp.335 P eter Matthiessen, a New York author of admirable virility and sensitivity (The Snow Goose,......