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Friends, Romans, Japanese

Murray Sayle Tokyo M ost friendships,. Sir', said Dr Samuel Johnson to his pushy young friend Boswell, 'are mere leagues in vice, or conspiracies in folly.' Political......

One Hundred Years Ago The Difficulties Of The Historian Are

well illustrated in the discussion in the Times on turtle soup. Sir Henry Thomp- son, who is an eminent authority on food and cooking, as well as surgery, writes to say that......