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The Gourmet And The Guru

David Lancaster The Root and the Flower L. H. Myers (Seeker and Warburg £8.95) T he Near and the Far by L. H. Myers is a sequence of four novels set in 16th- century India......

Balancing The Account

Asa Briggs British Society, 1914-1945 John Stevenson (Allen Lane £16.95) I tth is is appropriate that the middle pages of admirably lucid and comprehensive nevi History in the......