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Two Famous Towns

The Destruction and Resurrection of Pompeii and Herculaneum. By Egon Caesar Conte Corti. (Routledge and Kegan Paul. 25s.) Counrr Court is among those rather uncommon historians......

Reviews Of The Week

Blessing or Curse? The Chinese in Southeast Asia. By Victor Purcell. (Oxford University Press. sos.) THERE can rarely have been a more timely and let less ephemeral work than......