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Unimportant Man In The Library

Andrei Navrozov THE REVOLUTION OF 1905: RUSSIA IN DISARRAY by Abraham Ascher Stanford University Press, $39.50, pp.412 LENIN: THE MAN BEHIND THE MASK by Ronald W. Clark Faber,......

Queen Of The Castle

Peter Quennell THE ARTIST AND THE AUTOCRAT: GEORGE AND ROSALIND HOWARD, EARL AND COUNTESS OF CARLISLE by Virginia Surtees Michael Russell, £12.95, pp. 191 Q uarrelling for some......