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Memento Mori

George Gale • The Survivor Terence Des Pres (Oxford University Press £4.00) This is a good book, modest in size, large in theme, well-written and coherently organised, and right......

Times Remembered

George Hutchinson A Man of The Times lverach McDonald (Flemish Hamilton £5.50) Mr Iverach McDonald retired from the Times after service of nearly forty years, first as a......

Snaps

John Brewer The Bourbon Kings of France Desmond Seward (Constable E6.00) Henrietta Maria Elizabeth Hamilton (Hamish Hamilton £6.95) Three hundred years of history in some three......