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The Fable Of The Bees

BERNARD MANDEVILLE, a Dutchman, living in the seventeenth century, considered human nature to be fundamentally wicked. Man " in a state of nature " is a headstrong, selfish and......

The Old English Gardening Books

The Old English Gardening Books. By Eleanour Sinclair • Rolide. New Aldine Library. (Hopkinson. 15s.) WE are always trying - to reach back to cur forbears ; to realize that they......

Ibanez Attacks King Alfonso

THIS is not an important book. It is neither a weighty, fully documented treatise on contemporary Spanish history, nor yet an incisive, withering pamphlet containing " 'orrible......