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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......

On Stage

TRENDS IN 20TH CENTURY DRAMA. By Frederick LumleY. (Rockliff, 30s.) MR. LUMLEY set himself a formidable task in attempting a general assessment of the aims and achievements of......

Balliol Background

AN EDWARDIAN Yount, By L. E. Jones. (Macmillan, 18s.) IN A Victorian Boyhood, Sir Lawrence Jones drew a vivid picture of his family and early life, ending in a blaze of glory at......

Elizabethan Africa

DRUM : ADVENTURE INTO THE NEW AFRICA. By Anthony Sampson. (Collins, 16s.) NATIONALISM IN COLONIAL AFRICA. By Thomas Hodgkin. (Frederick Muller, 10s. 6d.) NATIONALISM IN COLONIAL......