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Calamities

Elisabeth Whipp London Pride: The Story of the London Hospital A. E. Clark-Kennedy (Hutchinson Benham £3.50) The winter of 1740 was appalling. The Thames froze over. In the East......

Outmoded

Paul Ableman Kindly Light A. N. Wilson (Secker £4.50) I enthused mightily about A.N. Wilson's first novel The Sweets o fPimlico, missed the second and now, confronted with his......