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Meet The Brontes

Their Proper Sphere. A Study of the Brontt Sisters as Early-Victorian Novelists. By Inga-Stina Ewbank. (Arnold, 35s.) THE Brontës do not cease to fascinate. We have had every......

Pipped At The Post

The Pocket Venus: A Victorian Scandal. By Henry Blyth. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 40s.) Ar 10 o'clock on July 16, 1864, Lady Florence Paget, who was small, beautiful and shortly......

Out Of Zion Mr Jaconson's Latest Novel Is About A

Jewish family settled in South Africa. Benjamin Glick- man's father left Lithuania at the beginning of the century. Benjamin and his wife Sarah have three children—Joel, Rachel......