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A Touch Crankish Or Quirkish

John Fowles ALICE'S MASQUE by Lindsay Clarke Cape, £14.99, pp. 246 I didn't much like Lindsay Clarke's first novel, the West African Sunday Whiteman; but his next, the East......

A Frontier Settlement At Heart

Raymond Asquith KIEV: A PORTRAIT, 1800-1917 by Michael F. Hamm Princeton University Press, £21.95, pp. 304 K iev has been to Russia as Jerusalem to the Crusaders, a source and......