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As It Happened. By C. R. Attlee. (heinemann. 16s.)

Mn. ATTLEE'S autobiography reveals no secrets about the Labour Party or about the Governments of which he was a member from 1940 to 1951, first as Deputy Prime Minister and from......

The Inviolate Dean

Jonathan Swift: A Critical Biography. By John Middleton Murry. (Jonathan Cape. 30s.) THE extreme reluctance of Jonathan Swift to place himself completely within the confidence......

A Mid-victorian Spiv

CHARLES AUGUSTUS HOWELL has waited sixty - four years for his grapher. Both Violet Hunt and Ford Madox Ford toyed with the projeol, but abandoned it. Countless amateurs of......