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Unflinching Tory

Lord Eldon's Anecdote Book. Edited by A. L. J. Lincoln and R. L. McEwen (Stevens, 25s.) Tint liveliest portrait of Eldon is to be found in The Spirit of the Age, where Hazlitt......

Greater Guinness

Guinness's Brewery in the Irish Economy 1759- 1876. By Patrick Lynch and John Vaizey. (C.U.P., 35s.) BUSINESS history in Britain is not in a particu- larly flourishing state.......

Up The Rovers

A Bad Streak, and Other Stories. By Brian Glan- ville. (Seeker and Warburg, I5s.) Nothing Important Ever Dies. By Romain Gary. • (Cresset, I5s.) SHORT stories rarely get their......