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Pride And No Prejudice

The Novels of Jane Austen. By Robert Liddell. (Longmans, 25s.) MR. LIDDELL'S new study of Jane Austen ' s novels is one for the initiate rather than for the novice; but his......

The Strength Of Indian Democracy

C. H. Philips. (Allen and Unwin, 25s.) Politics and Society in India. Edited by THE persistence of parliamentary democracy in India, when in so many of the new States of Asia......

The Anchorites

Monks and Monasteries of the Near East. By Jules Leroy. Translated by Peter Collin. (Harrap, 25s.) IT is a paradox that some of the greatest re- ligious art has been produced in......