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The Question Is: What Do You Do With Alluvial Mud?

Raymond Carr CIVILIZATIONS by Felipe Fernandez Armesto Macmillan, £25, pp. 636 or Fernandez Armesto all our attempts to define civilisation are flawed. Kenneth Clark threw in......

Loving And Wrecking: Spring Storm

Running athwart the wind, I was trying to head for harbour, Knowing a light was beckoning there to me. But the wind had other plans in mind And grew momently fiercer and harder,......

The End Of The Gorgeous Napoleonic Dream

Christopher Sinclair-Stevenson HERMES IN PARIS by Peter Vansittart Peter Owen, £16.50, pp. 234 I can think of few books which would more annoy those bright young things (they......