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Far Away Time

ASHLEY BROWN Selected Poems John Crowe Ransom (Eyre and Spottiswoode 40s) This third edition of Mr Ransom's Selected Poems is presumably the final version that he will publish.......

Goodly King

DAVID KNOWLES Philip the Good Richard Vaughan (Long- mans 110s) This is the third volume of Professor Vaughan's quadrilogy of Burgundian history, which in scope and range of......

Ugly Mug

ROBERT BIRLEY The Face of the Third Reich Joachim C. Fest translated by Michael Bullock (Weidenfeld and Nicolson 65s) The best pages in this book are, perhaps, the first two.......