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Fakirs And Fakers

Nicholas Harman THE RISE OF l'HE INDIAN ROPE TRICK by Peter Lamont Little, Brown, £1499. pp. 288, ISBN 0316724300 E verybody knows what unicorns are, and everybody knows there......

Two Very Different Islands

Diana Hendry MISS RANSKILL COMES HOME by Barbara Euphan Todd Persephone Books, 170, pp. 330, ISBN 1903155363 R eviewirig this novel in 1946, when it was first published,......