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Life And Loves

Frank Harris. By Vincent Brome. (Cassell, 25s.) A LIAR, a cheat, a blackmailer, a randy cad, a pretentious and inconsiderable writer, a crashing failure; a thief and murderer in......

Plenty Of Piety

People of Plenty. By David M. Potter. (The University of Chicago Press; C.U.P., 12s.) The Godly and the Ungodly. By Reinhold Nie- buhr. (Faber, 21s,) HERE are three books from......

Northern Aspect

The Age of Improvement. By Asa Briggs. (Long- mans, 35s.) This is the intelligent working-man's guide to nineteenth-century English history. It is not exclu- sively an economic,......