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Brave New Fallacies

By NICHOLAS DAVENPORT Old-fashioned ideas about ordinary shares were swept away long ago. It is fifteen months since the average yield on equities fell below the yield on......

Lots Of Love

And the Bridge is Love. By Alma Mahler Werfel. (Hutchinson, 25s.) Wttsr's in a name? More than one would think. The average English reader can hardly be expected to feel a......

Spanish And English Armadas

The Defeat of the Spanish Armada. By Garrett Mattingly. (Jonathan Cape, 25s.) THE defeat of the Spanish Armada is central to English historical mythology. Elizabethan propa-......