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Herod

THE LIFE AND TIMES OF HEROD THE GREAT. By Stewart Perowne. (Hodder and Stoughton, 21s.) Tim: reader should not allow himself to be put off by the compli- cated prolegomena with......

Rake's Regress

C ASTLEROSSE. By Leonard Mosley. (Arthur Barker, 15s.) i t :ORD CASTLEROSSE was the sort of man of whom it must have ° Cen said, when he died, `. . . we shall not look upon his......