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Incident On Everest

BY Mr. Izzard's own admission, his title is misleading; it should have been The Journalist on the Job.' He was no more on Everest than the walker at Pen y Pass is on Snowdon.......

The Whig Cause

The Old Cause. By Donald Carswell. (Cresset Press, 30s.) 'wino ! ', the very word was like a bell! At its sound historians ruched from their own lush pastures of scholarship to......

Court Life In Washington

The Secret Diary of Harold L. Ickes: Volume 1, The First Thousand Days, 1933-1936; Volume II, l'he Inside Struggle, 1936-1939. (Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 31s. 6d. each.) IT was a......