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Books

Fantasies on the road south Colin Welch A VISIT TO GERMANY, ITALY AND MALTA, 1840 - 1841 by Hans Christian Andersen translated by Grace Thornton Peter Owen, £12.50 A peculiar......

A Perverse,

neurotic fantasist Peter Quennell JONATHAN SWIFT, A HYPOCRITE REVERSED by David Nokes OUP, £14.95 A lthough rarely troubled by readers and biographers today, Sir William Tem-......