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The Carolingian Legend

IT is not surprising that each generation seeks its own interpreta- tion of the figure of Charlemagne. Delisle Burns described the shout that greeted Charles's coronation in 800......

Popular Archwology

A SHORT INTRODUCTION TO ARCHIEOLOGY. By Professor V. G. Childe. (Muller, 10s. 6d.) EARLY ANATOLIA. By Seton Lloyd. (Penguin Books, 3s. 6d.) 'THE British were, and are,' declares......

High And Low

IT is just thirty years ago since Piofessor Norman Sykes awakened interest in the episcopate of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries with his excellent biography......