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Amateur History

A.L.Rowse Queen Katherine Parr Anthony Martienssen (Secker and Warburg 0.75) It is a symptom of the time that reading — and writing — history is so popular. And, indeed, what......

The National Health

William Sargant Ritual in Industrial Society. A Sociolog ic analysis of ritualism in modern Engl a % Robert Bocock. (George Allen and VIV I-. £4.00). This may or may not be a......