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Philosophy Of The Fool

The Fool : His Social and Literary History. By Enid Weis- ford. (Faber and Faber. 2 Is.) APPARENTLY there are many varieties of the Fool betWeen the opposite extremes of the......

A Seventeenth-century Philanthropist

John Defiers, 1654-1725. His writings reprinted by A. Rah' Fry. (Casson. 6s.) Joins Bra.ixas was certainly one of the most. remarkable men of the later Stuart and Revolutionary......