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Books

Bringing the roof down Philip Hensher BROADWAY BABIES SAY GOODNIGHT: MUSICALS THEN AND NOW by Mark Steyn Faber, f20, pp. 250 here's a good game to be had thinking up the least......

The Snow Of Yesteryear

Nigel Spivey THE CAMBRIDGE QUINTET by John L. Casti Little, Brown, £16.99, pp. 182 T hat some few scientists possess divulga- tive ambitions is cause for gratitude. That most of......