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Man Of Principle

CHARLES STUART Charles James Fox, A Man for the People Loren Reid (Longmans 65s) It is a sad reflection on the study of English political history of the late eighteenth cen-......

New Novels

Fearful times MAURICE CAPITANCHIK A Gamble with Death Zaharia Stancu (Peter Owen 40s) Tumult Johannes Allen (Hogarth Press 21s) The Cat's Pajamas and Witch's Milk Peter De Vries......

Tangled Web

DAVID KNOWLES Frederick Barbarossa Peter Munz (Eyre and Spottiswoode 90s) Although before long Wellington, NZ, may be, as Concorde flies, almost as near to London as was......