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Problems Of Family Life

Montgomery Hyde Aubrey and the Dying Lady: A Beardsley Riddle Malcolm Easton (Secker and Warburg, £4.50) Few artists who died as young as Aubrey Beardsley—not yet twenty-six at......

Repointing The Masonry

John Vincent Sir Robert Peel: the life of Sir Robert Peel of ter 1830. Norman Gash (Longman E8) Of all the long grey books that the examination candidate has to face, some of......

Bookend

Bookbuyer The Bodley Head has had astronomical subscriptions before publication for Solzhenitsyn's August 1914, which has been reprinted four times before publication, to a......