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The Jesuit Of Berkeley Square

SHELBURNE has been one of the great enigmas of eighteenth-century politics; the old Whig his- torians, in spite of his radical views, regarded him with suspicion; the new Tory......

Romantic Suspect

THE life of Victor Serge was one of hardship and adversity. 'Out of a little over fifty years,' he wrote, 'I have spent ten in various forms of captivity, which have usually......