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Much Ado About Nothing

Geoffrey Wheatcroft A History of English Opera Eric Walter White (Faber £30) J ohnson claimed that he could recite a chapter of The Natural History of Iceland by heart, Chapter......

Queen Of Scots

A.L. Rowse All the Queen's Men: Power and Politics in Mary Stuart's Scotland Gordon Donaldson (Batsford £14.95) cottish history is treacherous ground for IJEnglish historians,......

Balloonists

Peter Quennell The Montgolfier Brothers and the Invention of Aviation Charles Coulston Gillispie (Princeton University Press £30.20) N othing, wrote the first great astronau t......