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Before The Soviets

The Decline of Imperial Russia, 1855-1914. By Hugh Seton-Watson. (Methuen. 32s. 6d.) As Professor Seton-Watson pertinently remarks, "though Russian history is little known it......

Light On Satire

Augustan Satire. By Ian Jack. (Clarendon Press, Oxford. 18s.) MR. JACK carries gracefully and lightly his considerable learning ; he writes to instruct that we may get all the......