Volume 14, Number 3 · February 12, 1970
Lost Pussies
By Noel Annan
The Worm in the Bud
by Ronald Pearsall
Macmillan, 560 pp., $10.00
The Empress Brown
by Tom Cullen
Houghton Mifflin, 256 pp., $6.95
Ermyntrude and Esmeralda
by Lytton Strachey
Stein and Day, 75, 75 drawings pp., $5.95
Some years ago a book was published in England depicting famous entertainments over the centuries, such as that given by the Duchess of Richmond three nights before Waterloo. The book was called Memorable Balls. It is a pity that this title has been pre-empted, for it would do admirably for Ronald Pearsall's book on sex in the Victorian age.
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