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Tidings Of Comfort And Joy

Jonathan Keates BACCHUS: A BIOGRAPHY by Andrew Dolby The British Museum Press. £14.99, pp. 166, ISBN 0714122424 H e was born to a virgin honoured with the attentions of the most......

The Stateliest And The Starriest

John Martin Robinson ENGLAND'S THOUSAND BEST HOUSES by Simon Jenkins Allen Lane, £30, pp. 950, ISBN 073995963 T his elegant synthesis (you can tell immediately that Simon......