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Where Vultures Fly

DEADLINE AND DATELINE. By Rene MacColl. (Oldbourne, 15s.) MR. MACCOLL describes himself as a reporter. He tells us that he loves the life. He then proceeds to write a book that......

Twelfth-century Interlude

FROM BECKET TO LANGTON. By C. R, Cheney. (Manchester University Press, 18s.) THE forty-odd years of English history between the murder of Archbishop Thomas and Magna Carta have......