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Junior Posting

PATRICK ANDERSON The Best of Hugh Kingsmill edited by Michael Holroyd (Gollancz 80s) In my experience even quite literate people show a strange unawareness of how quickly books......

Books

The Great Unread CAROLA OMAN The death of Sir Walter Scott at Abbotsford on an idyllic early autumn day of 1832 caused a world-wide sensation. 'Almost every newspaper that......

Within The Pale

RONALD HINGLEY The Jews in Soviet Russia since 1917 edited by Lionel Kochan (our , 50s) Class Struggle in the Pale: The Formative Years of the Jewish Workers' Movement in......