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Older Sons

Auberon Waugh The British Aristocracy Mark BenceJones and Hugh MontgomeryMassingberd (Constable £6.95) On page 172 of this admirable new study of the British aristocracy,......

Balancing Act

Jonathan Keates The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor Ed. Sally Fitzgerald (Faber £8.25) Flannery O'Connor was hardly the most fortunate of American writers. In 1964,......