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One Day Her Prince Arrived

John Colvin THE SILVER DRUM: A JAPANESE IMPERIAL MEMOIR by Princess Chichibu Global Orient, £14.95, pp. 210 T he Silver Drum' was a little silver box, roughly in the shape of an......

A Host Of Qualifications

Dot Wordsworth DICTIONARY OF APPROPRIATE ADJECTIVES edited by E. H. Mikhail Cassell, £7.99, pp. 342 T he Hubble telescope has penetrated the mysteries of Jupiter's atmosphere,......