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An Unstable World

THE title of Mr. Taylor's new book might have led us to hope for a coherent study of the last century and a half as judged by him. While he claims the coherence of the rather......

Burckhardt And Rubens

Recollections or' Rubens. By Jacob Burckhardt. Edited by H. Gerson, The Hague, translated by Mary Hottinger. (Phaidon Press. los. 6d.) IN some dark recess of my library I......

Writer And Steel-worker

PETER DONNELLY is a steel-worker who writes extremely well. His life—a childhood on a farm in Ireland, seven years at a college. then various odd, jobs ending up in the......