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Boswell On Tour

BOSWELL ON THE GRAND TOUR. Vol. II. Italy, Corsica and France. 1765-1766. (Heinemann, 25s.) JAMES BOSWELL'S status as a great diarist is firmly secured in this, the latest of......

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SPECIAL OPERATIONS. Edited by Patrick Howarth. (Routledge, 16s.) THE nineteen contributors to Special Operations were all engaged in cloak-and-dagger work during the last war,......

Green Loaning

THIS publishing of an autobiography in widely separated volumes has disadvantages. Hares are started in one volume and months or years have to elapse before the reader is......