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The Scholar's Life Assailed

Andrew Crawshaw WALTER OAKESHOTT: A DIVERSITY OF GIFTS by J. Dancy Michael Russell, £24.00, pp. 370 I t was Walter Oakeshott who first told me as a boy why Virgil was chosen to......

Lloyd George Knew Her Mother

Alan Watkins FRANCES, COUNTESS LLOYD GEORGE: MORE THAN A MISTRESS by Ruth Longford Gracewin& £15.99, pp. 214 S ome 30 years ago the late Andrew Boyle, the editor and co-founder......