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Patched-up

Raymond Carr Republican Portugal: A Political History 1910-26 Douglas L. Wheeler (Wisconsin £14) Portugal: Birth of a Democracy Robert Harvey (Macmillan £3.95) On the European......

Victorian

Hugh Montgomery-Massingberd Margaret Countess of Jersey Violet Powell (Heinemann £5.90) Lady Violet Powell, sister of the Earl of Longford, is perhaps the most underrated of the......