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Sing Sing Song

Brian Martin Home Before Dark: A Personal Memoir of John Cheever by his Daughter Susan Cheever (Weidenfeld & Nicolson £10.95) I n 1968 John Cheever complained that his fellow......

Pastor Into Scholar

Harold Acton The Architecture of the Italian Renaissance Jacob Burckhardt Edited by Peter Murray (Secker & Warburg £30) - E:very few years since my fervent child- ' ' hood I......