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Splendour And Misery

BYZANTIUM AND ISTANBUL. By Robert Liddell. (Cape, 25s.) HIS - TORY lies buried—often alive—in the structures of ancient cities. It may be centred in a single monument—the......

Roman Mornings

ROMAN MORNINGS. By James Lees-Milne. (Allan Wingate, 17s.) WHEN I saw the title of this book, I immediately thought of Ruskin's Mornings In Florence and the pleasure I derived......

Rose Is A Rose

COLLINS GUIDE TO ROSES. By Bertram Park. (Collins, 25s.) PERSONS adventurous enough to have met Miss Gertrude Stein (for it was something of an experience), or to have engaged......