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In The Recent Discussion On The 'death Of The Novel'

it was widely agreed that the nineteenth century was the era of that 'art-form' and that the century had ended not in 1900 but with the outbreak of the First World War. Amidst......

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IT is often asked, rather querulously, why historians today seem unable to write with the superb gusty confidence of Macaulay. One reason is that there has occurred a......

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......