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Grottoes Of Delight

Peter Levi UNDER HELICON by Penelope Tremayne Tabb House, £9.95 T his is a book about Mediterranean places; its author is courageous, high- spirited and wise, but the individual......

Worst Side Story

Rupert Christiansen LEONARD BERNSTEIN by Joan Peyser Bantam, £14.95 LEONARD BERNSTEIN by Michael Freedland Harrap, £12.95 W hatever has come over the guild of American......