15 MAY 1971, page 19

G. R. Elton On The Tudors And Early Stuarts •

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Auberon Waugh On Lancing Farce

The highest praise anyone can give to a novel which has a humorous intention is to say that it made him laugh out loud. How- ever, when a fellow-reviewer describes a book in......