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Worth A Mass Of Writing

Euan Cameron PARIS: A LITERARY COMPANION by Ian Littlewood John Murray, £12.95 I threw myself on a bench,' wrote George Moore, recalling Paris during the 1870s in Memoirs of my......

Standing And Staring

What is this life, if full of care, We have no time to stand and stare? —W H Davies To take time, now, to stop to think (From schedules dreary, strict and tight, Like office,......

Palaces That Resist Interpretation

Andrew Robinson THE RAJPUT PALACES: THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN ARCHITECTURAL STYLE 1450-1750 by G. H. R. Tillotson Yale, DO V isitors to India, as well as Indians themselves, are......