Dogs
What lives dogs lead, The enthusiasm of their heads, Tongues out, ears in business — What hopes they have and what days out! It's the owners worry me. Emblematic, don't you......
The Waistcoat
I had a waistcoat just like that long ago: white piqué with tiny pearl buttons all down the front. At that time, Mr Poyntz of the Export Department was in love with me. One......
Down One-way Streets To Meaner Parts
Anita Brookner A FATAL INVERSION by Barbara Vine Viking, £10.95 I t is no secret that Barbara Vine is Ruth Rendell, whose excellent stories, part de- tective work, part......
A Voyage Around His Wife
Elizabeth Longford PUCKLER'S PROGRESS translated by Flora Brennan Collins, f15 H ow exhilarating to travel in the third decade of the 19th century. The Napoleonic wars were......
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