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Angela Burdett - Coutts. By Clara Burdett Patterson....

unusual material in this book ; for money is power, and power to the extent of £80,000 a year comes to few. Angela Burdett- Coutts was born in 1814, and died in 1906. She was......

The Age Of Reform

Politics in the Age of Peel. By Norman Gash. (Longmans. 45s.; THE change that has come over the study of modern British political history in the last quarter of a century might......

Great Ladies

The Glitter and the Gold. By Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan (formerly Duchess of Marlborough). (Heinemann'. 15s.) Yam' few women born with a desire to shine can say no to. the Idea......