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A Poseur With A Purpose

Victoria Glendinning HAZEL: A LIFE OF LADY LAVERY 1880-1935 by Sinead McCoole Lilliput, f25, .E15, pp. 242 he Irish colleen depicted on the first Irish Free State banknotes was......

A Shooting Star

Michael Scott MY PARABOLA by Titta Ruffo Baskerville,$38, pp. 490 A ffixed to the inside of the front cover of the baritone Titta Ruffo's autobiogra- phy, originally published......