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That Damned Elusive Pimpernel

M. R. D. Foot SECRET SERVICE by Elizabeth Sparrow Boyden, £25, pp. 459 o r years, the Public Record Office used to say — it would be interesting to know whether tongue-in-cheek......

Getting Better All The Time

James Buchan ROAD TO RICHES, OR THE WEALTH OF MAN by Peter Jay Weidenfeld, .£20, pp. 383 Ev er since economic philosophers dis- pensed with final causes, at about the time of......