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The Dwellings Of The Wilderness

James Knox THE AMERICAN COUNTRY HOUSE 1870-1940 by Clive Aslet Yale, f22.50, pp. 300 THE ARCHITECT AND THE AMERICAN HOUSE 1890-1940 by Mark Alan Hewitt Yale, £35, pp. 310 I t is......

The Russian Resurrection

John Jolliffe GORBACHEV, GLASNOST AND THE GOSPEL by Michael Bourdeaux Hodder & Stoughton, £13.95, £8.99, pp. 226 D ostoevsky once wrote that the voca- tion of the Russian people......