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How To Live

English for Maturity. By David Holbrook. (C.U.P., 21s.) FROM the fen and boulder clay of Cambridge- shire the Village Colleges have risen like stately pleasure-domes. These......

Holy Terror

The First Five Lives of Annie Besant. By Arthur Nethercot. (Hart-Davis, 42s.) VICTORIAN England was rich in talent, moral fervour and eccentricity, but even by Victorian......