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Sunset Of A Dynasty

The Last Bourbons of Naples. By Harold Acton. (Methuen, 50s.) MR. HAROLD Ac - roN is one of those romantics who still nostalgically regret the passing of the Bourbons. He has......

Germany's Ghosts

THIS is a very good and a very timely book. The alienation of Germany from the West between 1806 and 1945 is not a new,, theme; but Hans Kohn—a native of Prague and a former......