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A Tide In The Affairs Of Women

James Lees-Milne MRS KEPPEL AND HER DAUGHTER by Diana Souhami HarperCollins, £18, pp. 338 T he message of Mrs Keppel and her Daughter is how to, and how not to, con- duct a......

The Dove Keeps On Rising

P. J. Kavanagh THE SPIRIT LEVEL by Seamus Heaney Faber, £14.99, £6.99, pp. 70 W hat more shall we say of Heaney? We have ;already given him nearly every prize there is, our......