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Pax Atomica

ATOMIC QUEST. By Arthur H. Comptpn. (O.U.P., 30s.) PROFESSOR 131-AcKETT, it seems, has emerged from political ignominy with time, credit and yesterday's heterodoxes on his side.......

Pattern Of Footprints

THE CHATHAM ADMINISTRATION, 1766 - 1768. By John Brooke. (Macmillan, 36s.) WRITING history in modern times has become an activity in which a more or less familiar story is......

Green And Pleasant

rid th th CLEARLY The Rolling Road is an important book; it deals W I a subject of general interest, the development of English roa d s t and their tra ffi c. That it is an......