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No Complaints While On The Warpath

William Boyd MARCHING OVER AFRICA by Frank Emery Hodder & Stoughton, £12.95 Q ueen Victoria certainly kept her armies busy. There were the big wars Crimea, the Indian Mutiny,......

At The Height Of Her Powers

Anita Brookner THE MOTHER'S RECOMPENSE by Edith Wharton Virago, £3.95 HUDSON RIVER BRACKETED by Edith Wharton Virago, f4.95 E dith Wharton, great lady of Amer- ican letters,......